Romeo and Juliet Act I Quotes

Who said: “From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,/ Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean./ From forth the fatal loins of these two foes/ A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life?”

Chorus

Who said: “The which of you with patient ears attend,/ What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.”

Chorus

Who said: “Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?”

Abram

Who said: “What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word./ As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee./ Have at thee, coward!”

Tybalt

Who said: “If ever you disturb our streets again/ Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.”

Prince

Who said: “My child is yet a stranger in the world;/ She hath not seen the change of fourteen years./ Let two more summers wither in their pride/ Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.”

Lord Capulet

Who said: “But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart./ My will to her consent is but a part,/ And, she agreed, within her scope of choice/ Lies my consent and fair according voice.”

Lord Capulet

Who said: “A man, young lady! Lady, such a man/ As all the world—why he’s a man of wax.”

Nurse

Who said: “I’ll look to like, if looking liking move./ But no more will I endart mine eye/ Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.”

Juliet

Who said: “If love be rough with you, be rough with love./ Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.”

Mercutio

Who said: “I dreamt a dream to-night.”/ “And so did I.”/ “Well, what was yours?”/ “That dreamers often lie.”

Romeo and Mercutio

Who said: “Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace!/ Thou talk’st of nothing.”/ “True, I talk of dreams;/ Which are the children of an idle brain,”

Romeo and Mercutio

Who said: “I fear, too early; for my mind misgives/ Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars,/ Shall bitterly begin his fearful date/ With this night’s revels and expire the term/ Of a despised life, closed in my breast,/ By some vile forfeit of untimely death./ But he that hath the steerage of my course/ Direct my sail!”

Romeo

Who said: “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!/ For ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”

Romeo

Who said: “Now, by the stock and honour of my kin,/ To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.”

Tybalt

Who said: “Patience perforce with wilful choler meeting/ Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting./ I will withdraw; but this intrusion shall,/ Now seeming sweet, convert to bitterest gall.”

Tybalt

Who said: “Is she a Capulet?/ O dear account! My life is my foe’s debt.”

Romeo

Who said: “Go ask his name.—If he be married,/ My grave is like to be my wedding bed.”

Juliet