“I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword, Or manage it to part these men with me.” | Who said it: BenvoloioTo who: Tybalt Significant: This shows us Benvolios’s is mature and does not like to fight that he prefers peace |
“What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montague’s, and thee.” | Who said it: TybaltTo who: BenvolioSignificant: This shows that Tybalt likes to fight and wants to keep the fight going between the two families. |
” You men, you beasts,That quench the fire of your pernicious rageWith purple fountains issuing from your veins” | Who said it: PrinceTo who: the people who are fightingSignificant: Shows us the influence of the fights between he families and how big they are. |
” If ever you disturb our streets againYour lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.” | who said it: Princeto who: the people that were fighting Significant: Foreshadows the ending |
” Many a morning hath he there been seen,With tears augmenting the fresh morning’s dew, adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs.” | Who said it : Montague to who: BenvolioSignificant: tells us about Romeo and that he is kind of a baby |
“Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything of nothing first create!” | who said it: Romeo to who: Benvolio significant: is an example of an oxymoron. |
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparking in lovers eyes;Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, a preserving sweet.” | who said it: Romeoto who: Benvolio significant: it shows what Romeo thinks of love and what it should be like |
“My child is yet a stranger in the world. She hath not seen the change of fourteen years. Let two more summers wither in their pride ere we may think her ripe be a bride.” | who said it: Capuletto who: Paris significant: this complicates the plot because we know that Romeo and Juliet will are suppose to be together but Paris complicates it. We also learn that Juliet is not 14 yet. |
“Younger than she are happy mother made.” | who said it: Paris to who: Capuletsignificant: It shows us that Paris is confident. |
“She’s the hopeful lady of thy earth But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart;My will to her consent is but a part’ | who said it: Capuletto who: Parissignificant: Shows that Capulet is liberal and lets Juliet have a say in who she loves and marries. |
” Not mad, but more than a madman is,Shut up in prison, kept without my food,Whipped and tormented, and—-“ | who said it: Romeo said it to: Benvolio significant: example of a metaphor. It also characterizes Romeo because it tells is that he is dramatic. |
“Compare her face with some that I shall showAnd I will make thee think thy swan a crow.” | who said it: Benvolio said it to: Romeosignificant: shows that Bevolio is mature. |
“It is an honor that I dream not of.” | who said it: Julietsaid it to: To her mothersignificant: It is characterizes of Juliet because she does not feel ready to get married |
” Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, Too rude, to boist’rous, and it pricks like thorn,” | who said it: Romeosaid it to: Mercutio significant: Characterizes Romeo and how dramatic he is. |
“If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking you, and you beat love down.” | who said it: Mercutio said it to: Romeo significant: is a sexual pun. A characterization of Mercutio of how immature he is and how he likes to party and he just does what he wants to do in the moment. |
“I dreamt a dream tonight.” | who said it: Romeosaid it to: Mercutio significant: It foreshadowing. |
“True, I talk of dreams,Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,Which is a thin of substance as the airAnd more inconstant that the wind, who woos…” | who said it: Mercutiosaid it to: Romeo significant: Dreaming is a big theme of the play and Mercutio is the only one who doesn’t not believe in dreams |
“I fear too early, for my mind misgivesSome consequence yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin his fearful date with this night’s revels, and expire the term of a despised life closed in my breast by some vile forfeit of untimely death but he that hath the steerage of my course direct my sail.” | who said it: Romeo said it to: Mercutio significant: foreshadowing the ending of the story |
” O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!” | who said it: Romeo said it to: Talking about Juliet significant: Telling us Romeo gets taken away easily by appearances |
“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, for I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” | who said it: Romeo said it to: talking about Julietsignificant: tells us again that he is taken by appearances |
“It fits when such a villain is a guest.I’ll not endure him” | who said: Tybalt said it to: Capulet significant: characters Tybalt |
“If I profane with my unworthiest handThis holy shrine, the gentle sin is this; My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.” | who said it: Romeo said it to who: Juliet significant: the significant is love |
“For saints have hands that pilgrim’s hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers kiss.” | who said it: Julietsaid it to who: Romeosignificant: the significance is love |
“My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unkown, and known too late!Prodigious birth of love is it to meThat I must love a loathed enemy.” | who said it: Julietsaid it to who: Romeo significant: Tell us that and Juliet and their love is domed. The significance is that it complicates the plot. |
Romeo and Juliet Quote ID Act I
July 15, 2019