| “There’s no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all are perjured All forsworn, all naught; dissemblers all!” | Nurse |
| “Our Romeo hath not been in bed tonight.” | Friar Lawrence |
| “No less? Nay, bigger! Women grow by men.” | Nurse |
| “What satisfaction canst thou have tonight?” | Juliet |
| “If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully. Or if thou thinkest I am too quickly won, I’ll frown and be perverse and say thee nay So thou wilt woo.” | Juliet |
| “Where is my mother? Why, she is within. Where should she be? How oddly thou repliest!” | Juliet |
| “He is a kinsman to the Montagues; Affection makes him false, he speaks not true. | Lady Capulet |
| “I can tell you, but young Romeo will be older when you have found him than he was when you sought him.” | Romeo |
| “These times of woe afford no times to woo. Madam, good night, commend me to your daughter.” | Paris |
| “But come, young waverer, come go with me. In one respect I’ll thy assistant be; For this alliance may so happy prove To turn your households’ rancor to pure love.” | Friar Lawrence |
| “Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou her maid art far more fair than she.” | Romeo |
| “I conjure thee my Rosaline’s bright eyes, By her high forehead and her scarlet lip.” | Mercutio |
| “Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!” | Romeo |
| “When I have fought with the men, I will be civil with the maids – I will cut off their heads.” | Sampson |
| “Good thou, save me a piece of marchpane, and, as thou loves me, let the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell. Anthony, and Potpan!” | 1st servingman |
| “I’ll look to like, if looking liking move, But no more deep will I endart mine eye Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.” | Juliet |
| “You men, you beasts, That quench the fire of your pernicious rage With purple fountains issuing from your veins!” | Prince Escalus |
| “A crutch! A crutch! Why call you for a sword?” | Lady Capulet |
| “I’ll go along, no such sight to be shown, But to rejoice in splendor of mine own.” | Romeo |
| “Prodigious birth of love it is to me That I must love a loathed enemy.” | Juliet |
| “I tell you, he that can lay hold of her Shall have the chinks.” | Nurse |
| “But I can give thee more; For I will raise her statue in pure gold.” | Lord Montague |
| “O, that deceit should dwell In such a gorgeous palace!” | Juliet |
| “Susan and she (God rest all Christian souls!) Were of an age. Well, Susan is with God; She was too good for me.” | Nurse |
| “The earth that’s nature’s mother is her tomb. What is her burying grave, that is her womb.” | Friar Lawrence |
| “My only love sprung from my only hate. Too early seen unknown and known too late.” | Juliet |
| “For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” | Prince Escalus |
| “Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.” | Lord Capulet |
| “She doth teach the torches to burn bright… Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.” | Romeo |
| “Let two more summers wither in their pride Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.” | Lord Capulet |
| “Thou wast the prettiest babe that e’er I nursed. And I might live to see thee married once, I have my wish.” | Nurse |
| “You kiss by the book.” | Juliet |
| “Many a morning hath he there been seen With tears augmenting the fresh morning’s dew.” | Lord Montague |
| “Take this vial, being then in bed, And this distilled liquor drink thou of.” | Friar Lawrence |
| “O happy daggar! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.” | Juliet |
| “These times of woe afford no time to woo. Madam, good night. Commend me to your daughter.” | Paris |
| “What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word As I hate hell…and thee. Have at thee, coward!” | Tybalt |
| “With Rosaline, my ghostly father? No; I have forgot that name, and that name’s woe.” | Romeo |
| “…get thee to church o’ Thursday Or else never after look me in the face.” | Lord Capulet |
| “Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, ’tis enough.” | Mercutio |
Romeo and Juliet Quote Review
September 7, 2019