Romeo and Juliet Quotes

"A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life..."

Prolouge

"Why, he's a man of wax!" -Nurse

Nurse

"Prodigious birth of love it is to me
That I must love a loathed enemy."

Juliet

"She hath not yet seen the change of 14 years."

Capulet

'She doth teach the torches to burn bright.'

Romeo

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

Juliet

"O that I were a glove upon that hand/That I might touch that cheek!"

Romeo

"For this alliance may so happy prove To turn your households' rancor to pure love."

Friair

"O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?"

Juliet

"Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow"

Juliet

"Either thou or I, or both, must go with him"

Romeo

"O, I am fortune's fool"

Romeo

"Should I speak ill of he who is my husband?"

Juliet

"I think it's best you marry with the county"

Nurse

3 things Romeo compares Juliet to

Romeo compares Juliet's beauty to the brightness of torches, a jewel in the ear of an Ethiopian, and a snowy dove among crows

"Thus with a kiss I die."

Romeo

'O happy dagger!'

Juliet

"Then I defy you, stars!"

Romeo

"See what a scourge is laid upon your hate"

Prince Escalus

"His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt."

Paris