Romeo | “O brawling love, O loving hate, / O anything, of nothing first created! / O heavy lightness, serious vanity / Misshapen chaos of well-seeing forms, / Feather of lead,bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, / Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!” |
Juliet | “It [marriage] is an honor that I dream not of.” |
Mercutio | “O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you.” |
Juliet | “That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet. / So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called” |
Romeo | “If I profane with my unworthiest hand / This holy shrine, the gentle fine (punishment) is this: / My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready to stand / To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.” |
Tybalt | “What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word / As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.” |
Friar Lawrence | “Young men’s love the lies / Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.” |
Romeo | “Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy / Be heaped like mine, and that thy skill be more / To blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath.” |
Mercutio | “No, ’tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but ’tis enough, ’twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague a both your houses!” |
Mercutio | “Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.” |
Romeo | “I am fortune’s fool!” |
Juliet | “O God, I have an ill-divining soul! / Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, / As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.” |
Lady Capulet | “Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn / The gallant, young and noble gentleman, / The County Paris, at Saint Peter’s Church, Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride.” |
Friar Lawrence | “And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death / Thou shalt continue two-and-forty hours, / And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.” |
Juliet | “Come, vial. / What if this mixture do not work at all? / Shall I be married then tomorrow morning?” |
Capulet | “Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir; / My daughter he hath wedded.” |
Romeo | “Is it e’en so? Then I defy you, stars! / Thou knowest my lodging. Get me ink and paper.” |
Romeo | “O mischief, thou art swift / To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!” |
Romeo | “Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight. / Let’s see for means, O mischief, thou art swift / To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!” |
Apothecary | “My poverty but not my will consents.” |
Romeo | “O true apothecary! / Thy drugs are quick, Thus with a kiss I die.” |
Juliet | “O happy dagger / This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.” |
Prince Escalus | “See what a scourge is laid upon your hate / That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.” |
Prince Escalus | “A glooming peace this morning with it brings. / The sun for sorrow will not show his head… / For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” |
Romeo and Juliet Quote Identification
July 23, 2019