Benedick is fishing for compliments from Beatrice here.  But he doesn’t get a very flattering answer back: “For them all together, which maintained so politic a state of evil that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them”, basically saying that evil is mixed into all of him. Benedick states that he ‘suffers’ love, because he loves Beatrice against his will.

Valentine admits to Proteus that there is another man who’s interested in the woman he loves, and he is visiting her at the time of their conversation. He confesses that he must go to her immediately as he is jealous of the other man’s wealth and possessions.

Armado tells Jaquenetta that he loves her, but she’s not so keen on him.  Armado makes this speech and says that love is evil because in his situation, it's not returned.

As well as writing lots of plays about love, Shakespeare wrote 154 love sonnets. Sonnet 18 is probably the most famous. Here he is saying his love is better than a summer’s day. Things don’t seem to last well though as sonnets 1 to 124 are to a young man but the last 18 are addressed to a woman!

Mistaken identity, love triangles and magic: Helena’s statement here sets the tone for the rest of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and tells the audience that what you look like isn’t always what it seems.

In Orsino’s opening lines to Twelfth Night, he ponders about how the spirit of love is so hard to pin down. He claims that love makes you want to explore everything in the world, and nothing at the same time.

Shepherdess Phebe is quoting from a poem by Christopher Marlowe called Hero and Leander. But all is not as it seems, as Phebe has fallen for Rosalind who is disguised as a boy.

Lover Romeo isn’t saying this to Juliet, though. He is being challenged to a fight by Paris and by stating that he cares about Paris more than himself, he is trying to get him to leave him alone.