| Romeo to self | Can I go forward when my hear is here? / Turn back, dull earth, and find thy center out (46). |
| Romeo to himself (about Mercutio) | He jests at scars that never felt a wound (48). |
| Romeo to himself/Juliet | But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? / It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! / 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 (48-49). |
| Juliet to herself (about Romeo) | O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? / Deny thy father and refuse thy name; / Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn thy love, / And I shall no longer be a Capulet (50). |
| Juliet to Romeo | What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other word would smell as sweet (50). |
| Romeo to Juliet | With love’s light wings did I o’er perch these walls; / For stony limits cannot hold love out, / And what love can do, that dare love attempt. / Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me (51). |
| Juliet to Romeo | O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, / That monthly changes in her circled orb, / Lest that thy love prove likewise variable (53). |
| Juliet to Romeo | Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow / That I shall say good night till it be morrow (56). |
| Friar Laurence to Romeo | Young men’s love then lies / Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes (59). |
| Friar Laurence to Romeo | Wisely and slow. They stumble who run fast (60). |
| Nurse to Romeo | Is your man secret? Did you ne’er hear say, / Two may keep counsel, putting one away (68). |
| Friar Laurence to Romeo | Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; / Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow (72). |
Romeo and Juliet Quotes (Act II)
August 1, 2019