Key Quotes from Romeo and Juliet

LIASMWTFOS

"Love is a smoke made with the fumes of sighs."

FFBMCN

"Fire-ey'd fury be my conduct now."

IFTEFMMM:SCYHITSSBB

"I fear too early, for my mind misgives: some consequence yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin."

OBL,OLH

"Oh brawling love, oh loving hate."

SHDW

"She hath Dian's wit" (Dian is a virgin goddess associated with Elizabeth AO3)

TASSNSHM

"The all-seeing sun ne'er saw her match."

O,SDTTTTBB, ...DMHLTN?FIS,FINSTBTTN

"Oh, she doth teach the torch to burn bright... Did my heart love till now? Forswear it sight, for I never saw true beauty till this night."

THS

"This holy shrine."

TFMLBTMSIP/THMLTSTTHT/SFML?OTSU!GMMSA

"Thus from my lips by thine my sin is purged; then have my lips the sin that they have took. Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again."

A,FS,AKTEM, WIASAPWG,TTHM,AFMFTS

"Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief, that thou, her maid, are far more fair than she."

TOTFSIATH...TBOHCWSTS

"The two fairest stars in all of heaven... The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars."

OSA,BA

"O, speak again, bright angel."

CMBL,AIBNB:HINWBR

"Call me but love, and I be new baptized: Henceforth I never will be Romeo."

WLLWDIOTW, FSLCHLO

"With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls, For stony limits cannot hold love out."

VIAN...IDPINIT,BILTBTTCD

"Villain I am none... I do protest I never injured thee, but I love thee better than thou can devise."

OSJ, TBHMME,AIMTSVS

"O Sweet Juliet, Thy beauty hath made me effeminate, and in my temper softens valour steel."

ETOI,OB,MGWH

"Either thou or I, or both, must go with him."

BM,S"D"FEHMTIHL

"Be merciful, say 'death' for exile has more terror in his look."

HIHWJL,AECADALMAEUTLHIHAMLOH,BRMN

"Heaven is here where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog and little mouse and every unworthy thing live here in heaven and may look on her, but Romeo may not."

TDM,TWOD

"Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death."

HBMTVAFPFOL...DHNPYUTB

"Her beauty makes this vault a feasting presence full of light... death hath no power yet upon thy beauty."

OHWISUMER,ASTYOIS, FTWWF

"O here will I set up my eternal rest, and shake the yoke of inauspicious stars, from this world-wearied flesh."

IDY,S

romeo, fate

5.1 "I defy you, stars!"

Family, Gender

"I'll look to like, if looking liking move, but no deeper will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly."

YKBTB

1.5 Romeo/Juliet, love "You kiss by the book."

IHBM,MGILTBMWB

1.5 juliet "If he be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed."

OR,R!WATR?DTFARTN

2.2 Juliet, internal conflict "Oh Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name."

Gender

"O swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon"

Religion

"Swear by thy gracious self, which is the god of my idol"

Juliet

"it is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, too like the lightning"

OWTLMSU

2.2 Romeo, sex "Oh will thou leave me so unsatisfied"

MBIABATS,MLAD

2.2 juliet, love

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep"

IPTS;GGNS!

"I pray thee speak; good, good Nurse, speak!"

BMLIGTSE,ICSUSOHMW

2.6 Juliet, love "But my love is grown to such excess, I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth"

Romeo/Juliet

"more light and light, more dark and dark our woes!"

NPYH,BTYH,PCINBOWIH,BTEFHTIML

3.5 Juliet, family conflict "Not proud you have, but thankful you have, proud can I never be of what I hate, but thankful even for hate that is meant love"

fate

"delay this marriage...or if you do not, make the bridal bed in that dim monument where Tybalt lies"

SHMTHMD,LITMHSBD

4.1 Juliet, religion "subtly hath ministered to have me dead, lest in this marriage he should be dishonoured"

DOMDB?

4.1 juliet

"Dash out my desperate brains?"

Juliet

"O happy dagger, this is thy sheath"

Juliet

"Give me my Romeo, and when I shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars"

I will kiss thy lips.

"Haply some poison yet doth hang on them To make me die with a restorative."

FAGBTNM,WCBMCHU

prologue, fate "From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean"

FFTFLOTTF,APOSCLTTL…TFPOTDML

prologue, fate, death, love

"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star crossed lovers take their life...the fearful passage of their death marked love"

men, conflict, gender

"I will be cruel with the maids: I will cut off their heads"

men, gender

"draw if you be men"

TTB;LUTD…W,DATOP?IHTW,AIHH,AM,AT:HATC

"Turn thee Benvolio; look upon thy death...what, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word, as I hate hell, all montagues, and thee: Have at thee coward"

IDBKTP

3.1 Benvolio

"I do but keep the peace"

BTWSPFTGW..MHAAN

1.1 Romeo, Benvolio, friendship

"Before the worshipped sun peered forth the golden window...makes himself an artificial night"

gender

"Ripe to be a bride."

TITOD,WATCOAIB,BONBVF

1.4 "True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy"

INEH,HSBE

1.5 men, family "ill not endure him, he shall be endured"

ATILOAS,SBORAIAS,CBAM,PBLAD

2.1 "Appear thou in likeness of a sigh, Speak but one rhyme and I am satisfied, Cry but "Ay me," pronounce but "love" and "dove""

PHR,AMP

2.3 Friar Lawrence "Poison hath residence, and medicine power"

YMLTLNTITHBITE

2.3 Friar Lawrence "young mens love then lies not in their hearts but in their eyes"

IWBYBTEFTJ

2.4 Mercutio "I will bite you by the ear for that jest"

LDDDWHD

2.6 Romeo, love "Then love devouring death do what he dare"

TVDHVE

2.6 Friar Lawrence "These violent delights have violent ends"

OC,D,VS!

3.1 Mercutio "O Calm, dishonourable, vile submission"

GKOC,NBOOYNL

3.1 Mercutio "Good King of Cats, nothing but one of your nine lives"

APOBYH!

3.1 Mercutio "A plague on both your houses!"

AB,AR,AVTFBTBOA

3.1 "A braggart, a rogue, a villain that fights by the book of arithmetic"

TITT,OLBD

3.1 Benvolio "This is the truth, or let Benvolio die"

GA,YFFS,TPL

3.2 Juliet, Fate "Gallop apace, you fiery footed steeds, towards Phoebus' lodging!"

VITV

2.3 Friar Lawrence "Virtue itself turned vice"

TNT,NF,NHIM

3.2 Nurse "There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men"

TAWTC

3.3 Friar Lawrence/Romeo, Fate "Thou art wedded to calamity"

BAW,WAB. SU,SU!SAYBAM...ATAM?..TTAW

3.3 Friar Lawrence, Masculinity "Blubbering and weeping, weeping and blubbering. Stand up, Stand up! Stand an you be a man...Art thou a man?...Thy tears are womanish"

TTOWANTTW

3.4 Paris, Gender "These times of woe afford no time to woo"

MIST,...AODITBOAT

3.4 Juliet, Fate "Methinks I see thee...as one dead in the bottom of a tomb"

IWTFWMTHG

3.5 Mrs C, Gender "I would the fool were married to her grave!"

UWASI

3.5 Mr C, Gender "Unworthy as she is"

O,YGSC!O,YB

3.5 Mr C, Gender "Out, you green-sickness carrion! Out, you baggage."

HT,YB,DW

3.5 Mr C, Gender "Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch!"

MFI

3.5 Mr C "My fingers itch"

WHACIHH

3.5 Mr C "We have a curse in having her"

YATB,ML,TRHS...P,YMF!

3.5 Mr C, Nurse, Gender "You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so...Peace, you mumbling fool"

HHHH?CL?WIT?...MFI

3.5 Mr C, Anger "how, how, how, how? Chop logic? What is this?....My fingers itch"

AIN,H,B,S,DITS,FBMSINAT

3.5 Mr C "And if not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets, for by my soul I'll never acknowledge thee"

ITYAHITSM,FIEYF

3.5 Nurse "I think you are happy in this second match, for it excels your first"

HIAERBY

4.2 Juliet/Mr C "henceforth I am ever ruled by you"

HDLWTW..FASW,DBH...MDHHW

4.5 Mr C, Fate "Hath Death lain with thy wife...flower as she was, deflowered by him...my daughter he hath wedded"

TITG-WPTMS

5.1 Romeo "There is thy gold, worst poison to men's souls"

AHM

5.3 About Friar "a holy man"

SSBP,ASSBP

5.3 Prince, Religion "some shall be pardoned and some shall be punished"