| “Why, thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more, or a hair less, in his bed, than thou hast” | Mercutio |
| “Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks” | Romeo |
| “Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow” | Juliet |
| “I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall Now seeming sweet convert to bitt’rest gall” | Tybalt |
| “He jests at scars that never felt a wound” | Romeo |
| “Away from the light steals home, my heavy son, And private in his chamber pens himself, Shuts up his windows, locks far daylight out And makes himself an artifcial night” | Montague |
| “I saw no man use you at his pleasure; if I had, my weapon should quickly have been out, I warrant you” | Peter |
| “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?” | Romeo |
| “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 make 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, goodnight, comment 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 for more fair than she” | Romeo |
| “I conjure thee my Rosaline’s bright eyes. By her high forehead and her scarlet lip” | Romeo |
| “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!” | Peter |
| “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 you pernicious rage With purple fountains issuing from your veins!” | Prince |
| “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’ll 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” | 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 |
Romeo and Juliet quotes
November 10, 2019