| “A pair of star- crossed lovers..” | Chorus |
| “… sad hours seem long” | Romeo |
| “Alas that love, so gentle in his veiw, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!” | Benvolio |
| “…. I will make thee think thy swan a crow” | Benvolio |
| “…. Queen Mab….. She is the fairies’ midwife” | Mercutio |
| “O. she doth teach the torches to burn bright!It seems she hangs upon the cheek of nightLike a rich jewel on an Ethiop’s ear..” | Romeo |
| “You kiss by th’ book.” | Juliet |
| “My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!” | Juliet |
| “He jests at scars that never felt a wound” | Romeo |
| “What soft, what light through yonder window breaks?” | Romeo |
| “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” | Juliet |
| “That which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet” | Juliet |
| “O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon,That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable” | Juliet |
| “Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks” | Romeo |
| “How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongues at night,Like the softest music to attending ears” | Romeo |
| “Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say ‘Good night’ til it be morrow | Juliet |
| “Thy head is full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat…” | Mercutio |
| “….’tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but ’tis enough. ‘Twill serve” | Mercutio |
| “A plague o’er both your houses!” | Mercutio |
| “Gallop apace you fiery- footed steeds…” | Juliet |
| “Wilt 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 |
| “Night’s candles are burnt our, and jocund dayStands tiptoe on the misty mountain- tops” | Romeo |
| “Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds….” | Capulet |
| “….past hope, past care, past help” | Juliet |
| “Not stepping o’er the bounds of modesty.” | Juliet |
| “Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath,Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.” | Romeo |
| “… Never was a story of more woeThan this of Juliet and her Romeo | Prince |
| “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 |
| ‘Thus with a kiss, I die” | Romeo |
| “O happy dagger!” | Juliet |
| “Give me my Romeo, and, when he shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars,And he will make the fave of heaven so fine,That all the world will be in love with night,And pay no worship to the garish sun” | Juliet |
| “A fool’s paradise” | Nurse |
| “How fares my Juliet? that I ask again;For nothing can be ill if she be well” | Romeo |
| “This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath,May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.” | Juliet |
| “Thou sober- suited matron, all in black” | Juliet |
| “Come, gentle night, come, Romeo; come, thou day in night” | Juliet |
| “O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!Did ever a dragon, keep so fair a cave?” | Juliet |
| “Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!” | Juliet |
| “Was ever book containing such vile matterSo fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwellIn such a gorgeous palace!” | Juliet |
| “there’s no trust,No faith, no honesty in men” | Nurse |
| “Affliction is enamour’d of thy parts,And thou art wedded to calamity” | Friar Lawrence |
| “Thou cutt’st my head off with a gloden axe.” | Romeo |
| “Adversity’s sweet milk, philosophy.” | Friar Lawrence |
| “Wisley and slow; they stumble that run fast” | Friar Lawrence |
| “For you and I are past our dancing days” | Capulet |
| “One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sunNe’er saw her match since first the world begun” | Romeo |
| “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it sightFor I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” | Romeo |
| “These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triumph die, like fire and powder,Which as they kiss consume” | Friar Lawrence |
| “This day’s black fate on more days doth depend: This but begins the woe that other’s must end” | Romeo |
| “Romeo is banished, There is no end, no limit, measure, bound,In that word’s death. No words can taht woe sound” | Juliet |
| “Tis torture. and not mercy. Heaven is hereWhere Juliet lives, and every cat and dogAnd little mouse, every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven and may look on her, But Romeo may not” | Romeo |
| “Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low,As one dead in the bottom of a tomb” | Juliet |
| “Is there no pity sitting in the cloudsThat sees into the bottom of my greif?O sweet my mother, cast me not away!Delay this marriage for a month, a week, Or if you do not, make the bridal bedIn that dim monument where Tybalt lies” | Juliet |
| “Or bid me go into a new- made grave,And hide me with a dead man in his shroud” | Juliet |
| “True, I talk of dreams,Which are the children of an idle brain,Begot of nothing but vain fantasy” | Mercutio |
| “For stony limits cannot hold love out,And what love can do that dares love attempt” | Romeo |
| “Alack, there lies more peril in thine eyeThan twenty of their swords” | Romeo |
| “It is too rash, to unadvised, too sudden.” | Juliet |
| “One fire burns out another’s burning,One pain is lessen’d by another’s anguish” | Benvolio |
| “The weakest goes to the wall” | Gregory |
| “An hour before in the worshipp’d sunPeered forth the golden window of the east” | Benvolio |
| “As is the bud bit with an envious wormEre he can spread his sweet leaves to the air,Or dedicate his beauty to the sun” | Montague |
| “Saint- Seducing Gold” | Romeo |
| “Younger than she are happy mothers made.” | Paris |
| ‘My man’s as true as steel” | Romeo |
| “Stabbed by a white wench’s black eye.” | Mercutio |
| “He is the courageous captain of complements” | Mercutio |
| “O flesh, flesh, how art thou finished!” | Mercutio |
| “am the very pink of courtesy” | Mercutio |
| “I have more care to stay than will to go” | Romeo |
Famous Quotes from Romeo and Juliet
July 24, 2019