| “I will bite my thumb at them;which is disgrace to them, if they bear it.” | Sampson (the Capulet servant)(This action causes the first fight during the play.) |
| “Two households, both alike in dignity,In fair Verona, where we lay our scene” | The Chorus |
| “If ever you disturb our streets again,your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace!” | Prince Escalus |
| “Within the infant rind of this weak flowerpoison hath residence and medicine power.” | Friar Laurence(Rhyming Couplet; Shows his knowledge about the uses of herbs) |
| “I do but keep the peace, put up they sword, or manage it to part these men with me.” | Benvolio(This quote reveals his peaceful nature.) |
| “Oh, she is rich in beauty, only poor that when she dies, with beauty dies her store…” | Romeo(He feels that because she doesn’t return the type of love he is looking for that she has made an unwise choice.) |
| “What, draw, and talk of peace? I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee!” | Tybalt |
| “If love be rough with you be rough with love!” | Mercutio |
| “Let two more summers whither in their pride, ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.” | Lord Capulet(Telling Paris to give Juliet 2 more years to mature.) |
| “Younger than she are happy mothers made.” | County Paris(Back in this time it was common for girls to be married VERY young and have children right away.) |
| “Compare her face with some that I shall show and I will make thee think thy swan a crow.” | Benvolio(Rhyming Couplet; He is telling Romeo that there are other more beautiful ladies out there.) |
| “A man, young lady! Lady, such a man as all the world–why, he’s a man of wax.” | Nurse(Paris is highly recommended by the nurse because he has a noble reputation and is handsome.) |
| “Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find they centre out.” | Romeo(He wonders if he can move on and not know whether or not Juliet feels the same for him.) |
| “Find written in the margent of his eyes, this precious book of love, this unbound lover, to beautify him only lacks a cover.” | Lady Capulet(Extended Metaphor; Paris to a book) |
| “…my mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin his fearful date with this night’s revels and expire the term of a despised life closed in my breast by some vile forfeit of untimely death.” | Romeo(Foreshadowing his future death) |
| “Now by the stock and honour of my kin, to strike him dead, I hold it not a sin.” | Tybalt |
| “But passion lends them power time means to meet, tempering extremities with extreme sweet.” | The Chorus(Rhyming Couplet from the end of the 2nd Prologue) |
| “let him alone, a bears him like a portly gentleman; and, to say truth, Verona brags of him to be a virtuous and well-govern’d youth.” | Lord Capulet(He says to ignore Romeo because of his reputation in Verona) |
| “…thou mayst think my havior light.” | Juliet(…you might think I am too easily won over….) |
| “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” | Romeo |
| “My only love sprung from my only hate, too early seen unknown and known too late!” | Juliet |
| “But soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet the sun.” | Romeo(Metaphor) |
| “…kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief…? | Romeo(Personification) |
| “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.” | Juliet(Why does his name even matter!?) |
| “…swear not by the moon; the inconstant moon, that changes monthly in its circled orb…” | Juliet(Doesn’t want Romeo to promise his love upon the moon because it is always changing.) |
| “…Prince of Cats…” | Tybalt(Mercutio calls Tybalt this in reference to his fighting abilities.) |
| “…and bring thee cords made like a tackled stair…” | Romeo(He tells the Nurse to pick up the rope ladder.) |
| “…love’s heralds should be thoughts, which ten times faster glide than the sun’s beams…” | Juliet(Wishing that the nurse would hurry back from her errand so that she can get the message. Messengers should be faster than light.) |
| “So smile the heavens upon this holy actthat after hours with sorrow chide us not” | Friar Laurence |
Romeo and Juliet–Who Said It?
July 18, 2019