“O god! I have an ill-driving soul:/ Methinks I see thee, now thou art so slow,/ As one dead in the bottom of a tomb…” | Juliet |
“Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee/ Doth much excuse the appertaining rage/ To such a greeting.” | Romeo |
“These violent delights have violent ends,/ And in their triumph die, like fire and powder/ Which as they kiss consume.” | Friar Lawrence |
“Death, that hath suck’d the honey of thy breath,/ Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.” | Romeo |
“Affliction is enamored of thy parts,/ And thou art wedded to calamity.” | Friar Lawrence |
“Poisin, I see, hath hath been his timeless enf./ O churl! Drunk all and left no friendly drop/ To help me after.” | Juliet |
“Let Romeo hence in haste,/ Else, when he’s found, that hour is his last.” | Prince Escalus |
“Ny my count,/ I was your mother much upon these years/ That you are now a maid” | Lady Capulet |
“Oh swear not by the moon, th’inconstant moon,/ That monthly changes in her circled orb…” | Juliet |
“In what vile part of his anatomy/ Doth my name lodge? Tell me, that I may sack/ The hateful mansion.” | Romeo |
“See what a scourage is laid upon your hate,/ That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love…” | Prince Escalus |
“Love goes from love as schoolboys from their books/But love from love, toward school with heavy looks” | Romeo |
“Why is this not better now than groaning for love? Now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo…” | Mercutio |
“My will to her consent is but a part;/ And she agreed, within her scope of choice/ Lies my consent amd fairaccording voice” | Lord Capulet |
“Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir;/ My daughter he hath wedded. I will die,/ And leave him all.” | Lord Capulet |
“O serpant heart, hid with a flowering face!/ Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?” | Juliet |
Compare her face with some that I shall show,/ And I will make thee think thy swan a crow | Benvolio |
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.: | Romeo |
Romeo, thou art a villain. | Tybalt |
How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath to say to me that thou art out of breath? Is the news good or bad, answer to that. | Juliet |
Romeo slew Tybalt. Romeo must not live | Lady Capulet |
A plague o’ both your houses! They have made worms’ meat of me. | Mercutio |
A man, young lady! Lady, such a man as all the world. Why, he’s a man of wax! | Nurse |
Why, Romeo, art thou mad? | Benvolio |
No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir! | Sampson |
If ever you disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace. | Prince Escalus |
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. | Romeo |
O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, who monthly changes in her circled orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable. | Juliet |
Peace? Peace. I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee. | Tybalt |
f love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down. | Mercutio |
Soft, I will go along and if you leave me so you do me wrong. | Benvolio |
Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn. | Romeo |
‘It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night as a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear,’ | Romeo |
‘Deny thy father and refuse thy name.’ | Juliet |
‘Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.’ | Friar Lawrence |
‘If you be he, sir, I desire some confidence with you.’ | Nurse |
‘A villain that is hither come in spite to scorn at our solemnity this night.’ | Tybalt |
‘Ask for tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man | Mercutio |
‘My child is yet a stranger in the world: She hath not seen the change of fourteen years.’ | Capulet |
‘Many a morning hath he there been seen, with tears augmenting the fresh morning’s dew’ | Montague |
But woo her, gentle Paris. get her heart; My will to her consent is but a part’ | Capulet |
‘It is an honor that I dream not of’ | Juliet |
‘Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe’ | Tybalt |
My only love, sprung from my only hate!’ | Juliet |
‘But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?’ | Romeo |
O Romeo O roemomd wherfore art thou Romeo?’ | Juliet |
‘And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.’ | Juliet |
‘Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.’ | Friar Lawrence |
‘Alas poor Romeo, he is already dead.’ | Mercutio |
‘Is thy news good or bad? Answer to that.’ | Juliet |
These violent delights have violent ends.’ | Friar Lawrence |
Gentle mercutio put thy rapier up.’ | Romeo |
O, I am fortune’s fool!’ | Romeo |
‘Tybalt is dead, and Romeo-banished?’ | Juliet |
‘Take thou this vial…’ | Friar Lawrence |
Romeo, romeo, romeo, I drink to thee.’ | Juliet |
‘She’s not well married that lives married long, but she’s best married that dies married young.’ | Friar Lawrence |
‘My poverty but not my will consents.’ | Apothecary |
‘Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.’ | Romeo |
‘This is the place. There, where the torch doth burn.’ | Juliet |
‘For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her romeo.’ | Prince Escalus |
Every Romeo and Juliet quotation that is important
December 7, 2019