Romeo and Juliet Quotes

For midterm

“Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

**Abram** asked this in scene 1. (Act 1.)

“Marry, that marry is the very theme I came to talk of. Tell me daughter Juliet, how stands your disposition to be married?.”

**Lady** **Capulet** asked this in scene 3. (Act 1.)

“Did my heart love till now? foreswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”

**Romeo** said this in scene 5. (Act 1.)

“My only love sprung from my only hate!”

**Juliet** said this in scene 5. (Act 1.)

“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”

**Romeo** said this in scene 2. (Act 2.)

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.”

**Juliet** said this in scene 2. (Act 2.)

“O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”

**Juliet** said this in scene 2. (Act 2.)

“The earth that’s nature’s mother is her tomb; What is her burying grave, that is her womb; And from her womb of divers kind.”

**Friar** **Lawrence** said this in scene 3. (Act 2.)

“Within the infant rind of this weak flower, poison hath residence and medicine power.”

**Friar** **Lawrence** says this in scene 3. (Act 2.)

“Young men’s hearts then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”

**Friar** **Lawrence** says this in scene 3. (Act 2.)

“Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing. Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say “Good night” till it be morrow.”

**Juliet** said this in scene 2. (Act 2.)

“Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford no better term than this: thou art a villain.”

**Tybalt** says this in scene 1. (Act 3.)

“Ay ay a scratch a scratch.”

**Mercutio** said this in scene 1. (Act 3.)

“O! I am Fortunes fool!”

**Romeo** said this in scene 1. (Act 3.)

“Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir, 

My daughter he hath wedded. I will die,

And leave him all-life, living, all is Death’s”

**Lord Capulet** said this in scene 5.

“Farewell! God knows when we shall meet

again.

I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins

That almost freezes up the heat of life.”

**Juliet** said this in scene 3.

“Why, love, I say! Madam! Sweetheart! Why,

Bride!...

Marry and amen, how sound is she asleep!

I needs must wake her. Madam, madam,

Madam!”

Juliet’s **nurse** said this in scene 5.

“How doth my lady? Is my father well? How doth my Juliet? That I ask again,

For nothing can be ill if she be well.”

**Romeo** said this in scene 1. 

“Then she is well and nothing can be ill.  Her body sleeps in Capels’ monument,

And her immortal part with angels lives.”

**Balthasar** responded with this in scene 1. 

“My poverty, but not my will, consents.”

**The Apothecary** said this in scene 1. 

“Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth,

Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open, And in despite I’ll cram thee with more food.”

**Romeo** said this in scene 3. 

“And here is come to do some villainous shame To the dead bodies. I will apprehend him.”

**Paris** said this in scene 3. 

“Come, I’ll dispose of thee Among a sisterhood of holy nuns.”

**Friar Lawrence** says this in scene 3. 

“Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end.- O churl, drunk all, and left no friendly drop

To help me after! I will kiss his lips…”

**Juliet** said this in scene 3. 

“Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight. Grief of my son’s exile hath stopped her breath.

What further woe conspires against mine age?”

**Montague** said this in scene 3. 

“See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love, And I, for wrinkling at your discords too, Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished.”

**Prince** said this in scene 3. 

Any kindness of mine has dispersed into heaven with Mercutio, where he must be joined by one or both of the men responsible for his death. (Shakespeare 3.1.126-134)

**Paraphrased quote for:** “Alive in triumph, and Mercutio slain! Away, to heaven, respective lenity, and fire-eyed fury be my conduct now. Now, Tyablt, take the “villain” back again that thou gavest me, for Mercutio’s soul is but a little way above our heads, staying for thine to keep him company. Either thou or I, or both, must go with him.” (Shakespeare 3.1.126-134)

Romeo kills Paris in a rush of anger over Paris’ disobeying him and calling him a murderer. 

Paris: Romeo should be arrested, for he is a murderer. Therefore, I will stay, and will not listen to his threats. 

Romeo: If Paris wants to stay, fine, then we will fight.