chorus | from forth the fatal lions of these two foes a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life |
Romeo- foreshadowing | I fear to early, for my mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin his fearful date with this night’s revels |
Romeo and Juliet- sonnet | ROMEO: If I profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. JULIET: Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, which mannerly devotion shows in this; for saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do not touch, and palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss. |
Juliet | My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! |
chorus | now old desire doth in his deathbed lie |
chorus | but passion lends them power, time means, to meet |
Juliet | What’s in name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet |
Juliet- paradox | My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite. |
Juliet | By one that I’ll procure to come to thee, where and what time thou wilt perform the rite, and all my fortunes at thy foot I’ll lay and follow thee my [lord] throughout the world |
Juliet- paradox | Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing |
Friar Lawrence | Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hears, but in their eyes. |
Friar Lawrence | wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast. |
Juliet | How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath to say to me that thou art out of breath? The excuse that thou dost make in this delay |
Nurse- hyperbole | It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces |
Romeo | But come what sorrow can. . . Then love-devouring death do what he dare, It is enough I may but call her mine. |
Romeo | Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth, thus I enforced thy rotten jaws to open, and in despite I’ll cram thee with more food. |
Paris | And here is come to do some villainous shame to the dead bodies. I will apprehend him. |
Romeo | Let them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth. . . A madman’s mercy bid thee run away. |
Paris | Open the tomb; lay me with Juliet. |
Romeo | In faith, I will. . . And death’s pale flag is not advanced there. |
Friar Lawrence | Stay, then. I’ll go alone. Fear comes upon me. O, much I fear some ill unthrifty thing. |
Juliet | O, happy dagger, this is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die. |
Montague | Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight. Grief of my son’s exile hath stopped her breath. |
Romeo and Juliet quotations
September 12, 2019