| A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life… | Speaker:chorusSpoken to: audienceMeaning: That the two loves are destined for bad things |
| What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word/As I hate hell, all montagues, and thee. | Speaker: TybaltSpoken to: BenvolioMeaning: That tybalt is a very angry guy and would rather fight then have peace. |
| If ever you disturb our streets again,/your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace. | speaker: Princespoken to: Capulets & MontaguesMeaning: (the familys have fought 3 times before) If the familys fight again they will be killed for disturbing the peace |
| Many a morning hath he there been seen,/With tears augmenting the fresh morning’s dew. | Speaker: ?Spoken to: Lady MontagueMeaning That he often sees Romeo walking around the town crying. (Romeo is very emotional) |
| Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love,/Why, then, O brawling love, O loving hate,/O anything, of nothing first created!/O heavy likeness, serious vanity. | Speaker: RomeoSpoken to: BenvolioMeaning: Romeo uses many Oxymorons to describe love. Showing that he thinks love is very good, and at the same time very bad. |
| She’ll not be hit/with Cupid’s arrow | Speaker: RomeoSpoken to: BenvolioMeaning: Romeo is saying that Rosaline will never fall in love because she has taken a vow to live a chased life .(no sex) |
| B y giving liberty unto thine eyes./Examine other beauties. | Speaker: BenvolioSpoken to: RomeoMeaning: Benvolio is saying that he should look for a differant girl and that will make him feel better. |
| The earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she;/She is the hopeful lady of my earth. | Speaker: Lord CapuletSpoken to: Paris:All of my other children have died and juliet is my last child alive. (This shows that Lord capulet wants to wait longer before Juliet gets married) |
| At this ancient feast ofCapulet’s/Sup the fair Rosaline whom thou so lovest,/With all the admired beauties of Verona… Compare her face with some that I shall show,/ And I will amke thee think thy swan a crow. | Speaker: BenvolioSpoken to: RomeoMeaning: that Benvolio and Romeo will go to the Capulet’s party and Benvolio with compare other girls to Rosaline and show Romeo that there are more beautiful girls then Rolaline. |
| A man, young lady! Lady, such a man/ As all the world-Why, he’s a man of wax! | Speaker: NurseSpoken to: JulietMeaning: The nurse is telling Juliet is a very good looking man |
| Read o’er the volume of Paris’ face/And find delight writ there with beauty’s pen. | Speaker: Lady CapuletSpoken to: JulietMeaning: That Juliet needs to study Paris and she if she loves him, by looking at his body and into his eyes. |
| O, then Queen Mab hath been with you…. And True, I talk of dreams/which and the children of an idle brain. | Speaker:MercutioSpoken to: RomeoMeaning: Mercutio is telling Romeo that his dream means nothing and that people dream what ever they want. |
| …for my mind misgives/Some consequence yet hanging in the stars/Shall bitterly begin his fearful date/With this night revels and expire the term/Of a despised life, closed in my breast,/By some vile forgeit of untimely death. | Speaker: RomeoSpoken to: Benvolio & MercutioMeaning: Romeo dremp that going to the party would cause bad things to happen, and will cause someone an untimely death. |
| What lady is that, which doth enrich the hand of yonder night? | Speaker: RomeoSpoken to: ServingmanMeaning: Romeo sees Juliet and forgets all about Rosaline. |
| O, which doth teach the tourches to burn bright!/It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night/As a rih jewel in an Ethipo’s ear. | Speaker: RomeoSpokn to: ServingmanMeaning: Romeo is saying that the girl (Juliet) sticks out among the croud because she is so beautiful. |
| Fetch me my rapier, boy. What! Dares the slave/Come hither, covered with an antic fact/To fleer and scorn at our solemnity? | Speaker: TybaltSpoken to: BoyMeaning: That Tybalt is very angry that Romeo would show up at the Capulet’s party and that Tybalt wants to kill Romeo. |
| If I profane with my unworthiest hand/This holy shrine, the gentile sin is this:/My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand/To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss | Speaker: RomeoSpoken to: JulietMeaning: Romeo says that Juliet is like a holy thing and that he is not even worthy to touch her. |
| My only love sprung from my only hate! | Speaker: JulietSpoken to: NurseMeaning: That Juliet is in love with a Montague, her familys enemy and family she hates. |
| If ove be blind, love cannot hit the mark | Speaker: MercutioSpoken to: BenvolioMeaning: that Romeo knows nothing about love |
| But soft! What liht through yonder window breaks?/It is the east and Juliet is the sun… | Speaker: RomeoSpoken to: HimselfMeaning: Romeo sees Juliet is her window and compares her to the sun |
| O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?/Deny thy father and refuse thy name. | Speaker: JulietSpoken to: RomeoMeaning: Juliet is asking why Romeo must be a Montague, and that he should deny his family and stay with her. |
| What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/By anyother name would smell as sweet. | Speaker: JulietSpoken to: RomeoMeaning: Why does a name matter? If you called a rose something else it would be just as good. |
| This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath,/May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. | Speaker JulietSpoken to: RomeoMeaning: That Juliet thiks their love will be even greater next time they are together |
| Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow… | Speaker: JulietSpoken to: RomeoMeaning: that it is very sad that they must leave, but at least they were together. |
| Within the infant rind of this weak flower/Poison hath residence and medicine power;/For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part/Being tasted,stays all senses with the heart. | Speaker: Friar LaurenceSpoken to: HimselfMeaning: This love is both good and bad but hopefully the good outweighs the bad. |
| In one aspect I’ll thy assistant be;/For this alliance may so happy prove/To turn your household’s rancor to pure love. | Speaker: Friar L.Spoken to: RomeoThe friar will only hep Romeo because he thinks it might cause the 2 familys to stop fighting and love each other. |
| Wisely and slow. They stumble who run fast. | Speaker: Friar L.Spoken to: RomeoMeaning: that is you go to fast and dont thing thinks through, then bad things will happen. |
| The hie hence to Friar Laurence’s cell;/There stays a husband to make you a wife. | Speaker: NurseSpoken to: JulietMeaning: go to Friar L.’s cell Romeo waits there to marry you. |
| These violent delights have violent ends/And in their triumph die, like fire and powder | Speker: Friar L.Spoken to: RomeoMeaning: These passionate feelings could cause bad things to happen. |
| I do prtest, I never injured thee,/ But love thee better than thou cnst devise,/Till then shalt thou know the reason of my love… | Speaker: RomeoSpoken to: TybaltMeaning: Romeo is telling Tybalt that he doesnt hate him, but he loves him, but he cannot yet tell him why. |
| A plague o. both your houses! I am sped. | Speaker: MercutioSpoken to: RomeoMeaning: Curse both of your familys, for your fighting has caused me to die. |
| Alive, in triumph, and Mercutio slain?/Away to heaven respective lenity… | Speaker: RomeoSpoken to: TybaltMeaning: You are alive and caused Mercutio to die? He is off to heaven. |
| I have an inte=rest in your hat’s proceedings/My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a bleeding! | Speaker: PrinceSpoken to: Both Families |
| Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds./Towards Phoebus’ lodging. | Speaker: JulietSpoken to: HerselfMeaning: She wants th sun to go down so that she can see Romeo. (she uses an allusion that mentions a greek god that pulled the sun across the sky) |
| Give me my Romeo; and when I shall die,/Take him and cut him out in little stars,/And he will make the face of heaven so fine/Thatall the world will be in love with night… | Speaker: JulietSpoken to: HerslefMeaning: When Romeo dies he should become a constilation so that everyone will love and look forward to the night just like she does. |
| O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!/Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave! | Speaker: JulietSpoken to: NurseMeaning: she is asking how something as beautiful as Romeo could do something as evil as kill Tybalt |
| But, wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my husband?/That villain cousin would have killed my husband/ | Speaker: JulietSpoken to: NurseMeaning: That if Romeo didnt kill Tybalt, then Tybalt would have killed Romeo. |
| There is no world without Verona walls,/But purgatory, orture, hell itslef. | Speaker: RomeoSpoken to: Friar L.Meaning: Romeo would have no life outside of Verona because he would not have Juliet and it would be torture or hell. |
| O furtune, fortune! All men call the fickle | Speaker: JulietSpoken to: Herself (fate)Meaning: Juliet wants fate to stop forcing Her to be without romeo |
| Go counselor;/Thy and my bosom hencefoth shall be twain./I/ll to the friea to know his remidy | Speaker: JulietSpoken to: nurse (aside)Meaning: Go nurse, I will tell you no more of my secrets |
| On Thursday, sir? The time is very short. | Speaker: Friar L.Spoken to: ParisMeaning: Friar thinks it is too soon because he needs to figure out what to do with Romeo/ |
| Take then this vial, being then in bed,/And this distilled liquor drink thou off… | Speaker: Friar L.Spoken to: JulietMeaning: Juliet is to drink a poisin that will make her seem dead in the morning when Paris comes to get her. |
| I’ll send a friar with speed/To mantua, with my letter to thy lord. | Speaker: Friar L.Spoken to: JulietMeaning: That the Friar will send another friar with a message telling Romeo of their plan. |
| PArdon, I beseech you! Henceforward I am Ruled by you. | Speaker: JulietSpoken to: Lord Capuletmeaning: Juliet is tricking her father into thinking that she will do what ever he says from now on, but really she just says this so the friars plan will work. |
| Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. I have a faint, cold fear thrills through my veins. | Speaker: JulietSpoken to: Herself (aside)Meaning: Goodbye, will will probly never see each other agai, and i am scared to do what i must do. |
| My dismal scence I needs must act alone | Speaker: JulietSpoken to: HerselfMeaning: That she must be alone when she drinks it. (this shows us how strong Juliet is) |
| Death likes on her like an untimelt frost/Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. | Speaker: Lord CapuletSpoken to: Lady Capulet & NurseMeaning: She has died to early like a beautiful flower is killed when a late frost comes in spring. |
| All things that we ordained festive,/Turn from this office to black funeral. | Speaker: Lord CapuletSpoken to: Friar L.Meaning: He is telling the friar to change all of the wedding things into funeral things. |
| Then she is well and nothing can be ill./Her body sleeps in capel’s monument,/And her immortal part with angels lives. | Speaker: BalthzarSpoken to: RomeoMeaning: He is telling Romeo that Juliet is dead and in a tomb. And that she is in heaven with the angels. |
| The I defy you stars. | Speaker: RomeoSpoken to: Himself (fate)Meaning: ? |
| …let me have a dram of poisin, such soon-speeding gear/As will disperse itself through all the ceins. | Speaker: RomeoSpoken to: ApothecaryMeaning: Romeo is trying to buy a fast acting poisin from an Apothocary( a person who can sell medicine but cannot legaly sell poison) |
| Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood,/the letter was not nice, but full of charge,/Of dear import. | Speaker: Friar LaurenceSpoken to: Friar JohnMeaning: The letter that friar John could not get to Romeo was VERY importand, and now bad things might happen. |
| Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew | Speaker: ParisSpoken to: HimselfMeaning: PAris was at Juliets tomb to bring flowers and to morn her death. (this shows that Paris truely loved Juliet also) |
| Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,/Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth,/Thus i enforce thy rotten jaws open,/And in despite I’ll cram thee with more food | Speaker: RomeoSpoken to: Himself (the tomb)Meaning: Romeo compares the tomb to a stomach or womb, that has already consumded Juliet, and he will force it open and go in and kill himself. |
| O give my thy hand,/One write with me in sour misfortue’s book. | Speaker: RomeoSpoken to: Paris’ dead bodyMeaning: Romeo finds out that Paris also loves Juliet and that they both have the same problem. |
| Will I shake the yoke of inauspicious stars/From this world-wearied flesh…/O true apothecary!/Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss i die. | Speaker: RomeoSpoken to: Juliet’s “dead” body (himself)Meaning: Romeo will get rid of his bad fortune by dieing. |
| O Churl! Drunk all, and left no friendly drop/To help me after?…O happy dagger!/This is thy sheath: there rust, and let me die! | Speaker: JulietSpoken to: Romeo’s Dead body (herself)Meaning: She asks why Romeo left no poisin for her. Then she sees his dagger and decides to kill herslef with that instead. |
| Come, Montague, for thou are early up/To see thy son and heir more early dowm. | Speaker: ?Spoken to: ?Meaning: ? |
| Capulet! Montague!/See, what scrouge is laid upon your hate… | Speaker: PrinceSpoken to: Capulet & MontagueMeaning: Prince asks if they now see what their hate has caused to happen. |
| The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head…For never was a story of more woe/This this of Juliet and her Romeo | Speaker: Chorus?Spoken to” audience?Meaning: this is the end of a play, and there is no story more saddening then this. |
Romeo and Juliet Quote Packet
November 4, 2019