| “Part fools. Put up your swords. You know not what you do.” | Benvolio-During the street fight-Biblical allusion to the crucifixion |
| “Oh, where is Romeo? Saw you him today?I am right glad he was not at this fray.” | Lady MontagueAfter the street fightCouplet |
| Alas, that love so gentle in his view should be so tyrannous and rough in proof. | BenvolioComforting Romeo, who is “melancholy”Personification |
| “But woo her gentle Paris, get her heart.My will to her consent is but a part.” | Lord CapuletTelling Paris to wait two years for JulietCouplet |
| “If love be rough with you be rough with love. Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.” | MercutioComforting Romeo about Rosaline turning him down.Metaphor |
| “My only love sprung from my only hate.To early seen unknown and known too late.” | JulietRealizing Romeo is a MontagueCoupletMetaphorPersonification |
| Is she a Capulet? O dear account, my life is my foe’s debt.” | RomeoRealizing Juliet is a CapuletMetaphorApostrophe |
| “If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.” | MercutioReacting to Romeo, who has spent the night with JulietAllusion to CupidMetaphor |
| “O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?” | RomeoBalcony sceneLove or infatuation? |
| “Wisely and slowly, they stumble that run fast.” | The friarAfter he agrees to marry Romeo and JulietMetaphor |
| O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb | JulietBalcony scenePersonification |
| Good night, Good night parting is such great sorrow, that shall say good night till it be morrow | JulietBalcony sceneAlliteration |
| “These violent delight have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which, when they kiss, consume.” | The friarWarning Romeo and Juliet not to move too quicklyOxymoronMetaphorSimilePersonfication |
| Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man.” | MercutioAfter he is stabbed by TybaltPun |
| “Oh, I am fortune’s fool!” | RomeoAfter he kills TybaltAlliterationApostrophe |
| Give me my Romeo, and when he dies…” | JulietWaiting for him to arrive for wedding nightForeshadowing |
| “Beautiful tyranny, fiend angelical, dove-feathered raven, wolvish ravening lamb.” | JulietTorn between anger toward Romeo and grief for TybaltOxymorons |
| “Talk not to me, for I’ll not speak a word. Do what thou wilt, for I have done with thee.” | Lady CapuletAfter Juliet refuses to marry Paris |
| “For Venus smiles not in a house of tears.” | ParisAllusionPersonificationMetaphor |
| “Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of the field.”Lord Capulet | Lord CapuletDiscovering Juliet is “dead”SimilePersonificationMetaphorForeshadowingAlliterationImagery |
| “Ah me! How sweet is love itself possessed when but love’s shadows are so rich in joy.” | RomeoHe has had a dream he is Juliet’s kingPersonification |
| “O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men.” | RomeoWhen he learns Juliet is “dead”Apostrophe |
| “O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.” | RomeoHis dying wordsApostrophe |
| “O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.” | JulietHer dying wordsApostropheMetaphor |
| “For never was a story of more woe,Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” | PrinceFinal words of the play |
Romeo and Juliet Quotes
September 12, 2019