Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.
William ShakespeareThese violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume
William ShakespeareTwo households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
William Shakespeare