R&J Key Quotations LongList

star-… lovers, … marked love

star-cross’d lovers / death marked love, Prologue, Chorus

misadventured … overthrows

misadventured piteous overthrows, Prologue, Chorus

to be … is to stand, … if you be men

to be valiant is to stand / Draw, if you be men, A1S1, Gregory / Sampson

Peace? I … the word, as I hate …

Peace? I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee, A1S1, Tybalt

Throw your … weapons to the …

Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground, A1S1, Prince

Alas that love, so … in his view, Should be so … and rough in proof

Alas that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof, A1S1, Benvolio

Thou canst not … me to forget

Thou canst not teach me to forget, A1S1, Romeo

Let two more … wither in their pride, ere we may … her ripe to be a bride

Let two more summers wither in their pride, ere we may think her ripe to be a bride, A1S2, Lord Capulet

Earth hath … all my hopes but she, She’s the … lady of my earth

Earth hath swallow’d all my hopes but she; She’s the hopeful lady of my earth, A1S2, Lord Capulet

Younger than she are … mothers made, … too soon marr’d are those so early made

Younger than she are happy mothers made / And too soon marr’d are those so early made, A1S2, Paris / Lord Capulet

Woo her, gentle …, get her heart, My will to her … is but a part

Woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart, My will to her consent is but a part, A1S2, Lord Capulet

One fire burns out another’s …, take thou some new … to thine eye

One fire burns out another’s burning… take thou some new infection to thine eye, A1S2, Benvolio

I will make thee think thy … a crow

I will make thee think thy swan a crow, A1S2, Benvolio

the devout religion of mine …, the … sun ne’er saw her match

the devout religion of mine eye… the all-seeing sun ne’er saw her [Rosaline’s] match, A1S2, Romeo

it is an … that I dream not of

it [marriage] is an honour that I dream not of, A1S3, Juliet

younger than you, here in Verona, … of esteem are made already mothers

younger than you, Here in Verona, ladies of esteem are made already mothers, A1S3, Lady Capulet

I’ll look to …, if looking … move

I’ll look to like, if looking liking move, A1S3, Juliet

under love’s … burden do I sink

under love’s heavy burden do I sink, A1S4, Romeo

I ne’er saw … beauty till this …

I ne’er saw true beauty till this night, A1S5, Romeo

a snowy … trooping with …

a snowy dove trooping with crows, A1S5, Romeo

If I profane with my … hand this holy …, the gentle sin is this

If I profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine, the gentle sin is this, A1S5, Romeo

If he be …, my grave is like to be my … bed

If he be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed, A1S5, Juliet

My only … sprung from my only …

My only love sprung from my only hate, A1S5, Juliet

Blind is …, and best befits the …

Blind is love, and best befits the dark, A2S1, Benvolio

Juliet is the …, arise fair … and kill the envious moon

Juliet is the sun, arise fair sun and kill the envious moon, A2S2, Romeo

Speak again, bright …

Speak again, bright angel, A2S2, Romeo

Deny thy father and … thy name, or if thou wilt not, … sworn my love

Deny thy father and refuse thy name; or If thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I’ll no longer be a Capulet, A2S2, Juliet

My name, dear …, is hateful to myself, because it is an … to thee

My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself, because it is an enemy to thee, A2S2, Romeo

Thy kinsmen are no … to me, there lies more … in thine eye

Thy kinsmen are no stop to me… there lies more peril in thine eye than twenty of their swords, A2S2, Romeo

My life were better … by their hate, than death …, wanting of thy love

My life were better ended by their hate, than death prorogued, wanting of thy love, A2S2, Romeo

If thou swear’st, thou may … false, at lovers’ perjuries they say … laughs

If thou swear’st, thou may prove false: at lovers’ perjuries they say Jove laughs, A2S2, Juliet

O swear not by the …, th’inconstant …, swear by thy gracious self

O swear not by the moon, th’inconstant moon…swear by thy gracious self, Which is the god of my idolatry, A2S2, Juliet

I should have been more …, I must …

I should have been more strange, I must confess, A2S2, Juliet

too …, too unadvised, too …

too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, A2S2, Juliet

yet I should … thee with much …

yet I should kill thee with much cherishing, A2S2, Juliet

The earth that’s … mother is her …, What is her burying grave, that is her …

The earth that’s nature’s mother is her tomb; What is her burying grave, that is her womb, A2S3, Friar

Virtue itself turns …, being misapplied, and … sometime by action dignified

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, and vice sometime by action dignified, A2S3, Friar

Rosaline, I have … that name

Rosaline… I have forgot that name, A2S3, Romeo

Young men’s … then lies not truly in their …, but in their eyes

Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes… Women may fall when there’s no strength in men, A2S3, Friar

This alliance may so … prove, to turn your households’ … to pure love

This alliance may so happy prove, to turn your households’ rancour to pure love, A2S3, Friar

Wisely and …, they stumble that run …

Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast, A2S3, Friar

if you should lead her into a … paradise, it were a very … kind of behaviour

if you should lead her into a fool's paradise, as they say, it were a very gross kind of behaviour, A2S4, Nurse

These violent … have violent …, therefore love …

These violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume… therefore love moderately, A2S6, Friar

They are … that can count their …, my true love is grown to such excess

They are beggars that can count their wealth, But my true love is grown to such excess/ I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth, A2S6, Juliet

O calm, …, vile submission

O calm, dishonourable, vile submission, A3S1, Mercutio

O sweet Juliet, thy … hath made me …, and in my temper soften’d valour’s steel

O sweet Juliet, thy beauty hath made me effeminate, and in my temper soften’d valour’s steel, A3S1, Romeo

O, I am … fool

O, I am fortune’s fool, A3S1, Romeo

Mercy but …, pardoning those that …

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill, A3S1, Prince

Beautiful tyrant, fiend …, damned saint, … villain

Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical… damned saint, honourable villain, A3S2, Juliet

O serpent …, hid with a … face

O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face, A3S2, Juliet

There’s no …, no faith, no honesty in …, all perjur’d

There’s no trust, no faith, no honesty in men, all perjur’d, A3S2, Nurse

Thou art … to calamity

Thou art wedded to calamity, A3S3, Friar

I have stained the … of our joy

I have stained the childhood of our joy, A3S3, Romeo

I think she will be …, in all respects by me

I think she will be rul’d in all respects by me, A3S4, Capulet

Come, …, and welcome, Juliet wills it so

Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so, A3S5, Romeo

I wonder at this …, I will not marry …, and when I do, I swear it shall be …

I wonder at this haste…I will not marry yet, and when I do, I swear /It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate, /Rather than Paris, A3S5, Juliet

We have a … in having her

We have a curse in having her, A3S5, Lord Capulet

I would the fool were … to her grave

I would the fool were married to her grave, A3S5, Lady Capulet

fettle your fine … ‘gainst Thursday …, out, you … carrion

fettle your fine joints ‘gainst Thursday next, to go with Paris to Saint Peter’s church, Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither. Out, you green-sickness carrion! Out, you baggage, A3S5, Lord Capulet

I’ll give you to my …

I’ll give you to my friend, A3S5, Lord Capulet

Past …, past …, past help

Past hope, past cure, past help, A4S1, Juliet

Or bid me go into a new-made …, and hide me with a … man in his shroud

Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud… I will do it without fear or doubt, to live an unstain’d wife to my sweet love, A4S1, Juliet

This shall free thee from this … shame, if no … toy abate thy valour

This shall free thee from this present shame, if no inconstant toy, nor womanish fear, abate thy valour in the acting it, A4S1, Friar

peevish self-willed …

peevish self-willed harlotry, A4S2, Lord Capulet

with my … my joys are buried

with my child my joys are buried, A4S2, Lord Capulet

Flower as she …, deflowered by him, Death is my … son-in-law

Flower as she was, deflowered by him [death]. Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir, My daughter hath he wedded, A4S5, Lord Capulet

Death lies on her like an untimely …, upon the sweetest … of all the field

Death lies on her like an untimely frost/ Upon the sweetest flower of all the field, A4S5, Lord Capulet

Accursed, …, wretched, … day

Accursed, unhappy, wretched, hateful day, A4S5, Lady Capulet

Heaven and yourself had part in this fair …, now heaven hath …, and all the better is it for the maid

Heaven and yourself had part in this fair maid, now heaven hath all, And all the better is it for the maid, A4S5, Friar

Nothing can be … if she be …

Nothing can be ill if she be well, A5S1, Romeo

I … you stars

I defy you stars, A5S1, Romeo

Tempt not a … man, I come hither … against myself

Tempt not a desperate man…I come hither armed against myself, A5S3, Romeo

Here lies Juliet, and her … makes this vault a … full of light

Here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes this vault a feasting presence full of light, A5S3, Romeo

Death, that hath … the honey of thy …, hath had no power yet upon thy …

Death, that hath suck’d the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty, A5S3, Romeo

Here will I set up my … rest, and shake the … of inauspicious stars

Here will I set up my everlasting rest, and shake the yoke of inauspicious stars from this world-wearied flesh, A5S3, Romeo

A greater … than we can contradict hath … our intents

A greater power than we can contradict hath thwarted our intents, A5S3, Friar

O happy …

O happy dagger, A5S3, Juliet

Seal up the … of outrage for a …

Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while, A5S3, Prince

Here I stand both to … and purge myself, … and myself excused

Here I stand both to impeach and purge myself condemned and myself excused, A5S3, Friar

See what a … is laid upon your hate, that heaven finds … to kill your joys with love

See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love, A5S3, Prince

Poor … of our enmity

Poor sacrifices of our enmity, A5S3, Lord Capulet