| “Is love a tender thing? it is too rough, Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.” (Act I, Scene IV) | Romeo | 
| “If love be rough with you, be rough with love; Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.” (Act I, Scene IV) | Mercutio | 
| “For you and I are past our dancing days.” (Act I, Scene V) | Capulet | 
| “O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright.” (Act I, Scene V) | Romeo | 
| “It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear.” (Act I, Scene V) | Romeo | 
| “O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?” (Act II, Scene II) | Juliet | 
| “But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!” (Act II, Scene II) | Romeo | 
| “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other word would smell as sweet.” (Act II, Scene II) | Juliet | 
| “Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.” (Act II, Scene II) | Juliet | 
| “See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek!” (Act II, Scene II) | Romeo | 
| “Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.” (Act II, Scene III) | Friar Lawrence | 
| “O! I am Fortune’s fool!” (Act III, Scene I) | Romeo | 
| “Not stepping o’er the bounds of modesty.” (Act IV, Scene II) | Juliet | 
| “Tempt not a desperate man.” (Act V, Scene III) | Romeo | 
| “For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” (Act V, Scene III) | Prince | 
Romeo and Juliet Famous Quotes
 July 6, 2019