Romeo and Juliet Act 1 Quiz Quotations

These flashcards cover significant quotations from Act 1 of 'Romeo and Juliet,' outlining key characters and their meanings.

A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life

This foreshadows the death of Romeo and Juliet by suicide.

Part fools! Put up your swords; you know not what you do!

Means drop your swords; you don't know what you're doing.

What! Drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word / As I hate all Montagues, and thee. Have at thee, coward!

I hate peace, hell, Montagues and you! You are a coward!

Then she has sworn that she will still live chaste.

Describes Rosaline, who has vowed to remain pure and not be swayed by love.

She hath not seen the change of fourteen years.

Refers to Juliet, indicating that she is not yet 14 years old.

Why, he's a man of wax.

Paris, A metaphor used by the Nurse to praise Paris's attractiveness.

O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright.

A description of Juliet's beauty.

Go ask his name. If he be married / My grave is like to be my wedding-bed.

Romeo, Signifies Juliet's awareness that Romeo is a Montague and the complications that arise from this.