Key Quotes from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Mercutio

"Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man."

Capulet

"My finger itch."

Juliet

"My only love sprung from my only hate. Too early seen unknown and unknown to late."

Romeo

"With Rosaline, my ghostly father? No: I have forgot that name, and that name's woe."

Romeo

"Ha banishment? Be merciful, say "death"; For exile hath more terror in his look"

Juliet

"Oh happy dagger! This is they sheath; there rust, and let me die."

Friar Laurence

"Take this vilal, being then in bed, And this distilled liquor drink thou of."

Juliet

"You kiss by the book."

Nurse

"Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'vr I nursed. And I might live to term-15see the married once, I have my wish."

Friar Laurence

"Holy Saint Francis! What a change is here! Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear, So soon forsaken?"

Prince Escalus

"For never was a story of more woe Then this of Juliet and her Romeo."

Capulet

"...get thee to church o'thursday Or else never after look me in the face."

Tybalt

"What drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word As I hate hell...and thee. Have at thee, coward!"

Capulet

"let two more summers wither in their price Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride."

Paris

"Younger than she are happy mothers made."

Lady Capulet

"Marry, that "marry" us the very theme I came to talk of. "

Romeo

"Is she a capulet? O dear accoutn! my life is my foe's debt."

Mercutio

"O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes in shape no bigger than an agate stone."

Lady Capulet

"Accursed, unhappy, wretched, hateful day! Most miserable hour that e'er time saw.

Nurse

"Then hie you hence to Friar Lawrence's cell. There stays a husband to make you a wife"