| “pronounce but ‘love’ and ‘dove'” | Act 2 scene 1: Mercutio mocks Romeo’s lovesick language. |
| “O brawling love, O loving hate””feather of lead” | act 1 scene 1two termsDisplay Romeo’s conflicting love and misery as a petrarchan lover. |
| “How stands your disposition to be married?” | act 1 scene 3Shows Lady Capulet’s strong desire for Juliet to marry Paris. |
| “Right glad I am he was not at this fray” | Act 1 scene 1Shows Lady Montague’s concern for Romeo. |
| “Away to heaven, respective lenity” | Act 3 scene 1Romeo casts aside his previous desire for peace once Mercutio is dead. |
| “This is the hag…That presses them and learns them first to bear” | Act 1 scene 4 Mercutio’s Queen Mab speech, which shows his fear over sexual desire. |
| “the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads” | Act 1 scene 1The servants’ bawdy conversation. |
| “Deny thy father and refuse thy name” | Act 2 scene 2Juliet asks Romeo to abandon his family. |
| “Juliet is the sun” | Act 2 scene 2Shows their love to have a life-giving quality. |
| “my sin is purg’d” | Act 1 scene 5Romeo kisses Juliet and says this – gives the impression of purity. |
| “with love’s light wings” | Act 2 scene 2Romeo describes climbing the orchard wall- gives their love a powerful, heavenly quality. |
| “Tell me, that I may sack the hateful mansion.” | Act 3 scene 5Romeo threatens to kill himself after he is banished. |
| “fire-ey’d fury be my conduct now!” | Act 3 scene 1Romeo is furious after the death of Mercutio and abandons his love for Juliet in order to get revenge. |
| “peace? I hate the word as I hate Hell, all Montagues, and thee” | Act 1 scene 1Tybalt personifies the hatred between the two families. |
| “star-crossed lovers” | PrologueInsinuates that they are controlled by fate. |
| “my mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars” | Act 1 scene 5Romeo has a vision before going to the Capulet banquet. |
| “dead in the bottom of a tomb” | Act 3 scene 5Juliet has a dream seeing Romeo like this. |
| “Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast” | Act 2 scene 3 Friar Lawrence gives this advice on impulsive actions to Romeo. |
| “to turn your households’ rancour to pure love” | Act 2 scene 3Friar Lawrence gives this reason for marrying Romeo and Juliet. |
| “I have night’s cloak to hide me from their eyes” | Act 2 scene 2Romeo says this to Juliet so that she won’t worry about his safety. |
| “these hot days, is the mad blood stirring” | act 3 scene 1 Benvolio says this to Mercutio about the weather. |
| “Poison hath residence, and medicine power…in man as well as herbs” | act 2 scene 3Friar Lawrence says this about his herbs- also commenting on nature of love. |
| “Thus with a kiss I die” | act 5 scene 3Romeo says this before he takes the poison. |
| “Grief of my son’s exile hath stopped her breath.” | act 5 scene 3Montague explains the reason for his wife’s death. |
| “disobedient wretch” | act 3 scene 5What Capulet calls his daughter when she refuses to marry Paris. |
Romeo and Juliet: Key Quotes
September 8, 2019