| “Ah me, how sweet is love itself possessed/When but love’s shadows are so rich in joy!”(5.1.11) | a. Romeob. soliloquyc. Romeo says that love in reality is so amazing, and even the love in dreams is pretty good too |
| “Her body sleeps in Capel’s monument/And her immortal part with angels lives”(5.1.19) | a. Balthasarb. Romeoc. Juliet is dead in the Capulet’s tomb |
| “Then I deny you, stars!”(5.1.25) | a. Romeob. Balthasarc. Romeo denies his fate that Juliet is dead |
| “The world is not thy friend, nor the world’s law./The world affords no law to make thee rich”(5.1.76) | a. Romeob. apothecaryc. Romeo tries to convince the apothecary that the apothecary’s life in Mantua is already so bad, so breaking a little law isn’t going to hurt |
| “Where the infectious pestilence did reign/sealed up the doors and would not let us forth”(5.2.10) | a. Friar Johnb. Friar Lawrencec. Friar John says that he wasn’t able to leave Mantua to deliver the letter to Romeo because of the plague’s contamination |
| “Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew”(5.3.12) | a. Parisb. about Julietc. Paris calls Juliet a flower and says that he’s going to leave flowers on her grave |
| “More fierce and inexorable far/Than empty tigers or the roaring sea” (5.3.38) | a. Romeob. Parisc. Romeo says that his intentions right now to be with Juliet is greater than any natural force |
| “Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead/And Paris, too. Come, I’ll dispose of thee” (5.3.161) | a. Friar Lawrenceb. Julietc. Friar Lawrence tells Juliet that Romeo and Paris are both dead |
| “Haply some poison yet doth hang on them/To make me die with a restorative./Thy lips are warm”(5.3.171) | a. Julietb. soliloquyc. Juliet hopes Romeo has some poison on his lips so she can take it as a medicine to kill herself |
| “O happy dagger/This is my sheath. There rust, and let me die”(5.3.175) | a. Julietb. soliloquyc. Juliet’s final words before she kills herself |
| “Oh me, this sight of death is a bell/That warns my old age to a sepulcher(5.3.215) | a. Lady Capuletb. everybodyc. Lady Capulet says the sight of all the death (Romeo, Prince, Juliet) is indicator that she might die too |
| “Miscarried by my fault, let my old life/Be sacrificed some hour before his time/Unto the rigor of severest law”(5.3.274) | a. Friar Lawrenceb. everybodyc. Friar Larence admits that a lot of this death is his fault and is willing to die under the law |
| “See what a scourge is laid upon your hate/That heaven finds means to kill you joys with love”(5.3.303) | a. Princeb. everybodyc. The Prince says that the hate between the Montagues and the Capulets have killed their children |
| “O brother Montague, give me thy hand”(5.3.306) | a. Lord Capuletb. Lord Montaguec. Capulet asks for a truce between their two families |
| “A glooming peace this morning brings. The sun for sorrow will not show his head”(5.3.316) | a. Princeb. everybodyc. The Prince says that through all of the tragedy, some kind of a peace was forged because the Montagues and Capulets reconciled their differences |
Romeo and Juliet Act 5 Important Quotes
July 11, 2019