| Romeo, Act I Scene II, lines 91-92 | One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sunNe’er saw her match since first the world begun. |
| Romeo, Act I Scene V, line 45 | O, she doth teach the torchers to burn bright! |
| Romeo, Act I Scene V, lines 53-54 | Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night. |
| Rome, Act I Scene V, lines 46-47 | It seems she hangs upon the cheek of nightAs a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear — |
| Romeo, Act II Scene II, line 4 | It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! |
| Romeo. Act II Scene II, lines 23-25 | See how she leans her cheek upon her hand!O that I were a glove upon that hand,That I might touch that cheek! |
| Juliet, Act II Scene II, lines 35-38 | O Romeo, Romeo! — wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name.Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,And I’ll no longer be a Capulet. |
| Juliet, Act II Scene II, lines 45-46 | What’s in a name? That which we call a roseBy any other word would smell as sweet. |
| Juliet, Act II Scene II, lines 198-199 | Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrowThat I shall say good night till it be morrow. |
| Friar Laurence, Act II Scene III, line 94 | Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast. |
| Mercutio, Act III, Scene I, line 89 | A plague a’both houses. |
| Romeo, Act III Scene I, line 118-119 | This day’s black fate on more days doth depend.Thus but begins the woe others must end. |
| Juliet, Act III Scene II, lines 129-131 | … Romeo is banishèd –There is no end, no limit, measure bound,In that word’s death. No words can that woe sound. |
| Romeo, Act III Scene III, lines 30-34 | ‘Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here,Where 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. |
| Juliet, Act II Scene V, lines 55-56 | Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low,As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. |
| Juliet, Act III Scene V, lines 206-211 | Is there no pity sitting in the cloudsThat sees into the bottom of my grief?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, Act IV Scene I, lines 85-89 | Or bid me go into a new-made graveAnd hide me with a dead man in his tomb –Things that, to hear them told, have made be tremble –And I will do it without fear or doubtTo live an unstained wife to my sweet love. |
| Juliet, Act 4 Scene II, line 25 | Not stepping o’er the bounds of modesty. |
| Nurse, Act IV Scene V, lines 85-89 | O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day!Most lamentable day. most woeful dayThat ever, ever did I yet behold. O day, O day, O day! O hateful day!Never was seen so black a day as this.O woeful day! O woeful day! |
| Romeo, Act V Scene I, line 6 | I dreamt my lady came and found me dead. |
| Romeo, Act V Scene I, line 24 | Then I defy you, stars! |
| Romeo, Act V Scene III, lines 91-93 | … O my love, my wife!Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath,Hath had no power on thy beauty. |
| Friar Laurence, Act V Scene III, lines 158-159 | A greater power than we can contradictHath thwarted our intents. |
| Prince, Act V Scene III, lines 314-315 | For never was a story of more woeThan this of Juliet and her Romeo |
Important Quotes, Romeo and Juliet
July 7, 2019