"Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart...If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind."

*Many people contribute this quote to Shakespeare. However, did you know he never actually said this? Many figures in the literary world believe that, somewhere along the many passing years, it became a sort of perverted version of Shakespeare's Sonnet 90, which I have included below. Draw your own conclusions, but please, as an English & Literature student I pray thee, do not attribute the above quote to Shakespeare for the remainder of your days. ~Cherí

Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now;
Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross,
Join with the spite of fortune, make me bow,
And do not drop in for an after-loss:
Ah! do not, when my heart hath ‘scaped this sorrow,
Come in the rearward of a conquered woe;
Give not a windy night a rainy morrow,
To linger out a purposed overthrow.
If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last,
When other petty griefs have done their spite,
But in the onset come: so shall I taste
At first the very worst of fortune’s might;
And other strains of woe, which now seem woe,
Compared with loss of thee, will not seem so.

~William Shakespeare~
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onnet 90: Then Hate Me When Thou Wilt; If Ever, Now