Romeo | Aye me, sad hours seem long! |
Romeo | Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! |
Juliet | My only love sprung from my only hate! |
Romeo | He jests at scars that never felt a wound. |
Romeo | But, soft! What light from yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun! |
Juliet | O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? |
Juliet | What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. |
Romeo | Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, but love from love toward school with heavy looks. |
Juliet | Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow. |
Friar | Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. |
Friar | For this alliance may so happy prove, to turn your households’ rancor to pure love. |
Friar | Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast. |
Nurse | Did you never hear say two may keep counsel, putting one away? |
Friar | These violent delights have violent ends. |
Mercutio | Men’s eyes were made to look, and let them gaze. |
Mercutio | A plague on both your houses! |
Mercutio | No, ’tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church door, but ’tis enough, ’twill serve. Ask fro me tomorrow and you will find me a grave man. |
Juliet | Go counselor! Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain. |
Friar | Be patient, for the world is broad and wide. |
Romeo | In what vile part of this anatomy doth my name lodge? Tell me, that I may sack the hateful mansion. |
Juliet | Methinks I see thee, now thou art below, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb. |
Juliet | I wonder at this haste, that I must wed ere he that should be husband comes to woo. |
Paris | And therefore have I little talked of love, for Venus smiles not in a house of tears. |
Capulet | My heart is wondrous light since this same wayward girl is so reclaimed. |
Juliet | Oh, if I wake, shall I not be distraught, environed with all these hideous fears |
Friar | Confusion’s cure lives not in these confusions |
Friar | Your part in her you could not keep from death, but heaven keeps his part in eternal life. |
Friar | The heavens do frown upon for some ill; move them no more by crossing their high will. |
Apothecary | My poverty, but not my will, consents. |
Romeo | Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man. |
Romeo | How oft when men are at the point of death have they been merry! |
Friar | Fear comes upon me-oh much I fear some ill unlucky thing. |
Friar | A greater power than we can contradict hath thwarted our intents. |
Juliet | O churl! Drunk all, and left no friendly drop to help me after? |
Prince | See what a scourage is laid upon your hate that Heaven finds means to kill your joys with love! |
Prince | All are punished. |
Nurse | Oh, what learning is! |
Romeo and Juliet Quotes
September 1, 2019