| “Alas that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!” | Benvolio |
| “O she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hands upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!” | Romeo |
| “O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny they father and refuse they name! Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I’ll no longer by a Capulet.” | Juliet |
| “I have nights cloak to hide me from their sight; And but thou love me, let them find me here; My life we’re better ended by their hate, than death prorogue, wanting of they love.” | Romeo |
| “Doth not rosemary and Romeo begin both with a letter.” | Nurse |
| “.. Mercutio’s soul Is but little way above our heads staying for think to keep him company. Either thou or I, or both, must go with him.” | Romeo |
| “It was the lark, the herald of the morn, no nightingale.” | Romeo |
| “Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, and death’s pale flag is not advanced here.” | Romeo |
| “This by his voice, should be a Montague. Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dates the slave come hither, covered with an antic face. . .” | Tibult |
| “With thou be gone? It is not yet near day. It was the nightingale, and not the lark, that pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear.” | Juliet |
| “Read o’er the volume of young Paris’ face and find there delight writ with beauty’s pen! Examine every lineament and see how one another lends content.” | Lady capulet |
| “My child is yet a stranger in the world; she hath not seen the change of fourteen years.” | Lord Capulet |
| “These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness. . . Therefore love moderately: long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.” | Friar Laurence |
| “Ask for me tomorrow, you will find me a grave man.” | Mercutio |
| “Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch!” | Lord capulet |
| “Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field.” | Lord capulet |
| “But soft! What light through yonder winter breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!” | Romeo |
| “A plague o’ both your houses! They have made worms, meat of me.” | Mercutio |
| “. . . It’s not so deep as a well, not so wide as a church door; but tis enough, ’twill serve.” | Mercutio |
| “The roses in thy and cheeks shall fade to paly ashes, they eyes’ windows fall, like death, when he shuts up the day of life. . .” | Friar Laurence |
| ” what’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” | Juliet |
| “A glooming piece this morning with it brings; the sun, for sorrow, will not show his head; go hands, to have more talk of these sad things; some shall be pardoned, and some punished; for never was a story of more woe then this of Juliet and her Romeo.” | Prince Escales |
| ” O tell me, friar, tell me in what vile part of this anatomy doth my name lodge: tell me that I may sack the hateful mansion.” | Romeo |
| “See what a scourge is laid upon your hate. That heaven finds to kill your joys with love. And I for winking at your discord too have lost a brace of kinsmen: All are punished.” | Prince Escales |
| “More than the prince of cats, he is the Carraige us captain of compliments the very butcher of silk buttons.” | Mercutio |
| “O, I am fortune’s fool!” | Romeo |
| “It is my lady; O, it is my love! O, that she knew she were.” | Romeo |
| “Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.” | Juliet |
| ” if you ever disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.” | Prince Escales |
| “If I profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: my lips, to blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth out rough touch with tender kiss.” | Romeo |
| ” give me a case to put my visage in. A visor for a visor! What care i what curious eye doth quote deformities? Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me.” | Mercutio |
| “Death that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon they beauty.” | Romeo |
| “There is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls, doing more murder in this loathsome world than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.” | Romeo |
| “On Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen. That shall she, marry, I remember it well. ‘Tis since the earthquake now eleven years. .” | Nurse |
| “. . . She’ll not be hit with Cupid’s arrow. .” | Romeo |
| “He bears him like a portly gentleman; and, to say the truth, Verona brags of him to be a virtuous and well gover’d youth.” | Lady Capulet |
| “My only love, sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown and known too late.” | Juliet |
| “O, mickle is the powerful price that Lyza herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: . . . Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied; and vice sometimes by action dignified.” | Friar Laurence |
| “Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.” | Friar Laurence |
| “Gallup apace, you fiery-footed steeds, towards Phoebus’ lodging; such a Waggoner as Phaethon would whip you to the west and bring in cloudy night immediately.” | Juliet |
Romeo and Juliet quotes
December 2, 2019