Important Quotes Romeo & Juliet

Quotes said from different characters

“And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud, and in this rage, with some great kinsman’s bone as with a club dash out my desp’rate brains”’

Juliet

“My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me that I must love a loathed enemy.”

Juliet

Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man

Mercutio

These time of woe afford no times to woo

Paris

Not Romeo, Prince; he was Mercutio’s friend; His fault concludes what the law should end, the life of Tybalt.

Montague

The letter was not nice, but full of charge!

Friar

“What? Art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Turn the Benvolio, Look upon thy death”

Tybalt

A plague a’ both your houses!

Mercutio

My dismal scene I needs must act alone. Come vial.

Juliet

Me thinks I see thee, now thou art so low, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb.”

Juliet

See what a scourge is laid up on your hate that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love! All are punished

Prince

Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day. It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear"

Juliet

Sojourn in Mantua. I’ll find out your man, and he shall signify from time to time every good hap to you that chances here

Friar

Oh, I am fortune’s fool!

Romeo

If they bent of love be honorable, thy purpose marriage, send word to me tomorrow, by one that I’ll procure to come to thee… And all my fortunes at thy foot I’ll lay"

Juliet

I dreamed my lady came and found me dead, and breathed such life with kisses in my lips, that I revived and was an emperor

Romeo

For never was there a story of more Woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo

Prince

Each part, deprived of supple government/ shall stiff and stark and cold appear like death.

Friar

Romeo, Romeo, Romeo, I drink to thee.

Juliet

All things that we ordained festival/ Turn from their office to black funeral

Capulet

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark

Mercutio

That which we call as rose/ by any other word would smell as sweet

Juliet

Holy Saint Francis! What a charge is here! For this alliance may so happy prove/ To turn your households rancor to pure love.

Friar

Good Peter, to hide her face; for her fan’s the fairer face

Mercutio

But old folks, many feign as they were dead-/ Unwieldy, slow, heavy, and pale as lead.

Juliet

Till holy church incorporates two in one

Friar

O serpent heart, his with a flow’ring face!/ Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?

Juliet

Where thou shalt live till we can find a time/ to blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends,/ beg pardon of the prince, and call thee back./ With twenty hundred thousand times more joy/ Than thou went’st fourth in lamentation.

Friar

A ‘ Thursday let it be- 'a’ Thursday, tell her,/ She shall be married to this noble earl."

Capulet

Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low,/ As one dead in the bottom of a tomb./ Either my eyesight fails, or thou look’st pale.

Juliet

O, teach me how I should forget to think!

Benvolio

Younger than she are happy mothers made

Paris

It is an honor that I dream not of

Juliet

If love be rough with you, be rough with love

Mercutio

With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls.

Romeo

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,/ My love as deep.

Juliet

Then I defy you, stars!

Romeo

Thus with a kiss I die

Romeo

O happy dagger! This is thy sheath: there rust, and let me die.

Juliet

Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast

Friar

What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word,/ As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.

Tybalt

These violent delights have violent ends

Friar

If you ever disturb our streets again,/ Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace

Prince

This, by his voice, should be a Montague./ Fetch me my rapier, boy.

Tybalt

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow

Juliet

Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs

Romeo

I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword.

Benvolio

It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

Romeo

Death lies on her like an untimely frost / Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

Capulet

I’ll look to like if looking liking move.

Juliet