Romeo & Juliet Quotes

“ O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you.”

Mercutio

“ Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon, / Who is already sick and pale with grief, / That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.”

Romeo

“ But he that hath the steerage of my course, / Direct my sail. On, lusty gentlemen.”

Romeo

“ Henceforth I never will be Romeo.”

Romeo

“ Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! / For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.”

Romeo

“ Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days.”

Nurse

“ But saying o'er what I have said before. / 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

“ Good night, good night! / parting is such sweet sorrow.”

Juliet

“ Take him and cut him out in little stars, / And he will make the face of heaven so fine / That all the world will be in love with night / And pay no worship to the garish sun.”

Juliet

“ Peace. I have done. / God mark thee to his grace, / Thou wast the prettiest babe that e’er I nursed. / Ah I might live to see thee married once, / I have my wish.”

Nurse

“ What's in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other word would smell as sweet.”

Juliet

“ From forth the fatal loins of these two foes / A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life.”

Chorus

“O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! / Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? / Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! / Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!”

Juliet

“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”

Prince Escalus

“And yet I wish but for the thing I have; / My bounty is as boundless as the sea, / My love as deep; the more I give to thee, / The more I have, for both are infinite.”

Juliet

“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”

Friar Lawrence

“ I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword, / Or manage it to part these men with me.”

Benvolio

“ These violent delights have violent ends, / And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, / Which, as they kiss, consume.”

Friar Lawrence

“ Out of her favour, where I am in love.”

Romeo

“ But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?”

Romeo

“ And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death / Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, / And then awake as from a pleasant sleep”

Friar Lawrence

“ Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. / What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, / Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part / Belonging to a man.”

Tybalt

“ Thus with a kiss I die.”

Romeo

“ In one little body / Thou counterfeit'st a bark, a sea, a wind; / For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea, / Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy body is, / Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy sighs.”

Lord Capulet

“ See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate, / That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.” 

Prince Escalus

“ Ay me! sad hours seem long.”

Romeo

“ True, I talk of dreams, / Which are the children of an idle brain, / Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, / Which is as thin of substance as the air ”

Mercutio

“ From forth the fatal loins of these two foes / A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life. ”

Chorus

“ What say you? Can you love the gentleman? This night you shall behold him at our feast.”

Lady Capulet

“Content thee, gentle coz. Let him alone. / Verona brags of him / To be a virtuous and well-governed youth. / I would not for the wealth of all this town / Here in my house do him disparagement.”

Lord Capulet

“ I fear too early, for my mind misgives / Some consequence yet hanging in the stars ”

Romeo

“ O true apothecary! /. Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.”

Romeo

“ Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace. /. Thou talk'st of nothing.”

Romeo

“ Three civil brawls bred of an airy word, / By thee, old Capulet, and Montague, / Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets.”

Prince Escalus

“ O then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do. / They pray; grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.”

Romeo

“ O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! / It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night / Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear.”

Romeo

“ Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, / Which mannerly devotion shows in this; / For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, / And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.”

Juliet

“ This precious book of love, this unbound lover, / To beautify him only lacks a cover.”

Lady Capulet

“ Within the infant rind of this weak flower / Poison hath residence and medicine power: / For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part; / Being tasted, stays all senses with the heart”

Friar Lawrence

“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; / Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; / Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears.”

Romeo

“A plague o' both your houses!”

Mercutio

“ Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, / Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth, / Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open.”

Romeo

“ O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! / It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night / Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear.”

Romeo