Romeo and Juliet Quotes

“A pair of star crossed lovers take their life.”

This reveals the couple’s shared fate. (Prologue).

“Put up your swords, you know not what you do.”

Benvolio’s ominous message to Tybalt and the servants to stop fighting. (Act 1, Scene 1).

“Peace? I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.”

Tybalt Capulet to Benvolio, demonstrating his fury and wrath. (Act 1, Scene 1).

“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs.”

Romeo about his painful love for Rosaline. (Act 1, Scene 1).

“If you ever disturb our streets again, your lives will pay the forfeit of the peace.”

The Prince threatening to punish the families if they fight anymore. (Act 1, Scene 1).

“Some consequences yet hanging in the stars.”

Romeo getting a bad feeling before meeting Juliet. (Act 1, Scene 4).

“He that hath steerage of my course, direct my sail.”

Romeo handing himself over to fate before meeting Juliet. (Act 1, Scene 4).

“O brawling love, O loving hate!”

Romeo’s oxymoron about love. (Act 1, Scene 5).

“A snowy dove trooping with crows.”

Romeo when he first sees Juliet at the party, noticing her beauty. (Act 1, Scene 5).

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

Romeo after climbing the wall to visit Juliet, overcoming the symbolic ‘wall’ between the families. (Act 2, Scene 2).

“Too rash, too unadvised, too sudden. Too like the lightning which doth cease to be.”

Juliet to Romeo on the balcony, describing their love as fast, unpredictable and dangerous. (Act 2, Scene 2).

“Deny thy father and refuse thy name.”

Juliet when confessing her love to Romeo, despite the hatred between their families. (Act 2, Scene 2).

“Juliet is the sun.”

Romeo about Juliet and her beauty. (Act 2, Scene 2).

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

Friar Lawrence: a symbol for Romeo and Juliet’s relationship which brings both death and healing to their families. (Act 2, Scene 3).

“These violent delights have violent ends. And in their triumph die, like fire and power.”

Friar Lawrence warning Romeo and Juliet to love each other moderately before marrying them. (Act 2, Scene 6).

“Fire-eyed fury be my conduct now.”

Romeo asking masculine impulsive anger to take over after Mercutio is killed. (Act 3, Scene 1).

“A plague on both your houses.”

Mercutio after being stabbed by Tybalt cursing both families with a deadly fate. (Act 3, Scene 1).

“Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote the unreasonable fury of a beast.”

Friar Lawrence accusing Romeo of being weak and impulsive after killing Tybalt. (Act 3, Scene 3).

“Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch!”
“Beg, starve, die in the streets.”

Lord Capulet angry at Juliet when she refuses to marry Paris. (Act 3, Scene 5).

“Hath death lain with thy wife. There she lies, flower as she was, deflowered by him.”

Lord Capulet during Juliet’s fake death. Death and love/lust are closely linked. (Act 4, Scene 5).

“I defy you, stars!”

Romeo after hearing that Juliet is dead. (Act 5, Scene 1).

“A greater power than we can contradict hath thwarted our intents.”

Friar Lawrence telling Juliet that their plan has failed and that Romeo is dead. (Act 5, Scene 3).

“Shake the yoke of inauspicious stars from this world-wearied flesh.”

Romeo before killing himself, confirming his fate was written in the stars. (Act 5, Scene 3).

“Desperate pilot, now at once run on the dashing rocks.”

Romeo accepting his fate before he kills himself. (Act 5, Scene 3).

“All are punished.”

Prince at the end talking about how everyone has suffered because of the fued. (Act 5, Scene 3).