Romeo and Juliet 1.1-2.6 Quotes

“I do but keep the peace” (1.1.69).

Benvolio

“So please you, step aside./ I’ll know his grievances or be much denied” (1.1.159-160).

Benvolio

““Forget to think of her/ … Examine other beauties” (1.1.233-23)

Benvolio

“O, teach me how I should forget to think [of Rosaline]!” (1.1.234).

Romeo

“She [Rosaline] hath forsworn to love, and in that vow/ Do I live dead” (1.1.231-232).

Romeo

“With Rosaline…/ I have forgot that name and that name’s woe/… Then plainly know my heart’s dear love is set/ On the fair daughter of rich Capulet” (2.3.49-62).

Romeo

“But now, my lord, what say you to my suit?/ … Younger than she are happy mothers made” (1.2.6-12).

Paris

“The times of woe afford no times to woo” (3.4.8).

Paris

“My lord, I would that Thursday were tomorrow” (3.5.32).

Paris

“My sword, I say. Old Montague is come/ And flourishes his blade in spite of me” (1.1.79-80).

Old Capulet

“And too soon marred are those so early made./ Earth has swallowed all my hopes but she;/ She’s the hopeful lady of my earth./ But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart;/ My will to her consent is but a part” (1.2.13-17).

Old Capulet

“Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch!/ I tell thee what: get thee to church o’ Thursday,/ Or never after look me in the face [Juliet]” (3.5.166-168).

Old Capulet

“Turn thee, Benvolio;/ look upon thy death” (1.1.68).

Tybalt

“What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word/ As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee” (1.1.71-72).

Tybalt

“This, by his voice, should be a Montague. -/… Now, by the stock and honor of my kin,/ To strike him dead I hold it not a sin” (1.5.61-67).

Tybalt

“Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance” (1.4.13).

Mercutio

“If love be rough with you, be rough with love./ Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down” (1.4.27-28).

Mercutio

“True, I talk of dreams,/ Which are the children of an idle brain,/ Begot of nothing but vain fantasy” (1.4.103-105).

Mercutio

[marriage] “…is an honor that I dream not of” (1.3.71).

Juliet

“Go ask his name. If he be married,/ My grave is like to be my wedding bed” (1.5.148-149).

Juliet

“My ears have yet not drunk a hundred words/ Of thy tongue’s uttering, yet I know the sound./ Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague?” (2.2.63-65).

Juliet

“Well, think of marriage now. Younger than you/Here in Verona, ladies of esteem,/ Are made already mothers” (1.3.75-77).

Lady Capulet

“This night you shall behold him at our feast./ Read o’er the volume of young Paris’ face,/ And find delight writ there with beauty’s pen” (1.3.86-88).

Lady Capulet

“Of my dear kinsman. Prince, as thou art true./ For blood of ours, shed blood of Montague” (3.1.156-157).

Lady Capulet