![]() ![]() Quote Investigator: In 1893 the Italian-language opera Falstaff with music by the influential Romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi was first performed. I performed a comprehensive computer search to look through the entire corpus of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets and was unable to find this quote. Sometimes the play Romeo and Juliet is named as the source, but I have not been able to find this line in the famous story of star-crossed lovers. When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew. The following words are often ascribed to William Shakespeare: William Shakespeare? Arrigo Boito? Jeane Westin? Anonymous?ĭear Quote Investigator: I have a question about a quotation depicting communication between lovers.
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