Romeo and Juliet Quotes
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 "Two 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-crossed lovers take their life...Doth with their death bury their parents strife." | Prologue, Act 1 |
| "On pain of torture, from those bloody hands/ Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground." | Prince to Montague and Capulet, Act 1i |
| "My child is yet a stranger in the world. She hath not seen the change of fourteen year. Let two more summers wither in their pride/ Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride." | Capulet to Paris, Act 1 |
| "Younger than she are happy mothers made." | Paris to Capulet, Act 1 |
| "At this same ancient feast of Capulet's/ Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so loves, With all the admired beauties of Verona. Go tither, and with unattainted eye/ Compare her face with some that I shall show/ And I will make thee think thy swan a crow." | Benvolio to Romeo, Act 1 |
| "Well, think of marriage now. Younger than you/ Here in Verona, ladies of esteem, Are already made mothers. By my count/I was your mother much upon these years that you are now a maid." | Lady Capulet to Juliet, Act 1 |
| "Sometime she gallops o'er a courtier's nose,/ and then dreams he of smelling out a suit...Sometime she driveth o'ver a soldier's neck,/ And then he dreams of cutting foreign throats...." | Mercutio to Romeo, Act 1 |
| "Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night." | Romeo to self, Act 1 |
| "This, by his voice, should be a Montague - Fetch me my rapier, boy." | Tybalt to servant, Act 1 |
| "Let him alone. He bears him like a portly gentleman, And, to say truth, Verona brags of him to be a virtuous and well-governed youth." | Capulet to Tybalt, Act 1 |
| "My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late!" | Juliet to self/nurse, Act 1 |
| "See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand,/ That I might touch that cheek!" | Romeo to self, Act 2 |
| "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name..." | Juliet to self, Act 2 |
| "What's in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other word would smell as sweet." | Juliet to Romeo, Act 2 |
| "How camest thou hither, tell me, and wherefore? The orchard walls are high and hard to climb,/ And the place death, considering who thou art, If any kinsmen find thee here." | Juliet to Romeo, Act 2 |
| "With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls,/ For stony limits cannot hold love out." | Romeo to Juliet, Act 2 |
| "Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,/ But love from love, toward school with heavy looks." | Romeo to Juliet, Act 2 |
| "...What a change is here! Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear, So soon forsaken?" | Friar Lawrence to Romeo, Act 2 |
| "In one respect I'll thy assistant be,/ For this alliance may so happy prove/ To turn your households' rancor to pure love." | Friar Lawrence to Romeo, Act 2 |
| "Alas, poor Romeo, he is already dead, stabbed with a white wench's black eye, run through the ear with a love song, the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind bow-boy's butt shaft. And is he a man to encounter Tybalt?" | Mercutio to Benvolio, Act 2 |
| "But first let me tell you, if you should lead her in a fool's paradise, as they say, it were a very gross kind of behavior, as they say. For the gentlewoman is young; and therefore, if you should deal double with her, truly it were an ill thing to be offered to any gentlewoman, and very weak dealing." | Nurse to Romeo, Act 2 |
| "The reason that I have to love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting. Villain am I none. Therefore farewell. I see thou knowest me not." | Romeo to Tybalt and Mercutio, Act 3 |
| "Help me into some house, Benvolio, Or I shall faint. A plague o' both your houses! They have made worms' meat out of me." | Mercutio to Romeo, Act 3 |
| "This gentleman... my very friend, hath got this mortal hurt in my behalf. My reputation stained with Tybalt's slander - Tybalt, that an hour hath been my cousin! O sweet Juliet, they beauty hath made me effeminate And in my temper softened my valor's steel." | Romeo to Mercutio and Benvolio, Act 3 |
| "And for that offense/ Immediately we do exile him hence. I have an interest in your heart's proceeding: My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding. But I'll amerce you with so strong a fine/ That you shall all repent the loss of mine." | Prince to Montague and Lady Capulet, Act 3 |
| "More honorable state, more courtship lives/ In carrion flies than Romeo. They may seize On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand/ And steal immortal blessing from her lips, Who even in pure and vestal modesty,/ Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin. But Romeo may not. He is banishèd./ Flies may do this, but I from this must fly. They are free men, but I am banishèd./ And sayst thou yet that exile is not death?" | Romeo to Friar Lawrence, Act 3 |
| "Oh, he is even in my mistress' case,/ Just in her case. O woeful sympathy,/ Piteous predicament! Even so lies she,/ Blubbering and weeping, weeping and blubbering./ Stand up, stand up. Stand, an you be a man./ For Juliet's sake, for her sake, rise and stand." | Nurse to Romeo and Friar Lawrence, Act 3 |
| "Hold thy desperate hand./ Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thou art. Thy tears are womanish. Thy wild acts denote/ The unreasonable fury of a beast. Unseemly woman in a seeming man, And ill-beseeming beast in seeming both! Thou hast amazed me." | Friar Lawrence to Nurse and Romeo, Act 3 |
| "Art thou gone so? Love, lord, ay husband, friend! I must hear from thee every day in the hour, for in a minute there are many days. O, By this count I shall be much in years/ Ere I again behold my Romeo." | Juliet to Romeo, Act 3 |
| "Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn/ The gallant, young, and noble gentleman, The County Paris, at St. Peter's Church/ shall happily make thee there a joyful bride." | Lady Capulet to Juliet, act 3 |
| "Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch! I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday, Or never after look me in the face. Speak not; reply not; do not answer me" | Capulet to Juliet, Act 3 |
| "I think it's best you marry with the County. O, he's a lovely gentleman! Romeo's a dishclout to him. An eagle, madam, hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye/ As Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart, I think you are happy in this second match, For it excels your first." | Nurse to Juliet, Act 3 |
| "Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death, and therefore have I little talk of love/ For Venus smiles not in a house of tears. Now, sir, her father counts it dangerous That she do give her sorrow so much sway, and in his wisdom hastes our marriage to stop the inundation of her tears." | Paris to Friar Lawrence, Act 4 |
| "If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help, Do thou but call my resolution wise, And with this knife I'll help it presently." | Juliet to Friar Lawrence, Act 4 |
| "Take this vial, being then in bed, And this distilling liquor drink thou off; When presently through all thy veins shall run/ A cold and drowsy humor." | Friar Lawrence to Juliet, Act 4 |
| "In the meantime, against thou shalt awake/ Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift,/ And hither shall he come, and he and I will watch thy waking and that very night/ Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua." | Friar Lawrence to Juliet, Act 4 |
| "I will walk myself/ To County Paris, to prepare up him/ Against tomorrow. My heart is wondrous light/ Since this same wayward girl is so reclaimed." | Capulet to self, Act 4 |
| "What if it be a poison which the Friar/ Subtly hath ministered to have me dead,/ Lest in this marriage he should be dishonored/ Because he married me before to Romeo?" | Juliet to self, Act 4 |
| "Out, alas, she's cold. Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff. Life and these lips have long been separated. Death lies on her like an untimely frost/ Upon the sweetest flower of all the field." | Capulet to Lady Capulet and Nurse, act 4 |
| "Let me have a dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear/ As will disperse itself through all the veins,/ That the life-weary taker may fall dead." | Romeo to Apothecary, act 5 |
| "Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood, the letter was not nice but full of charge,/ Of dear import, and the neglecting it/ May do much danger." | Friar Lawrence to Friar John, Act 5 |
| "This is the banished haughty Montague/ That murdered my love's cousin, with which grief/ It is supposed the fair creature died, And here is come to do some villainous shame/ to the dead bodies. I will apprehend him." | Paris to self, act 5 |
| "Come, bitter conduct, come unsavory guide! Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on/ The dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark! Here's to my love. O true apothecary, thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die." | Romeo to self, act 5 |
| "Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O, happy dagger, This is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die." | Juliet to self, act 5 |
| "But I can give thee more, For I will ray her statue in pure gold,/ That whiles Verona by that name is known, There shall no figure at such rate be set/ As that of true and faithful Juliet." | Montague to Capulet, act 5 |
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