romeo and juliet - quote identification

Gregory

"To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand. / Therefore if thou art moved thou run'st away."

Abram

"Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?"

Tybalt

"What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word / As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee."

Prince

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

Benvolio

“It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo’s hours?”

Romeo

“Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love.”

Benvolio

“I’ll pay that doctrine, or else die in debt.”

Paris

"Younger than she are happy mothers made."

Capulet

"And too soon marred are those so early made. / Earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she; / She is the hopeful lady of my Earth"

Servant

"Now I'll tell you without asking. My master is the / great rich Capulet; and if you be not of the house of / Montagues, I pray come and crush a cup of wine. Rest you / merry"

Romeo

"One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun / Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun."

Nurse

"Now, by my maidenhead at twelve year old, / I bade her come. What, lamb! What ladybird! / God forbid, where's this girl? What, Juliet!

Lady Capulet

"This is the matter—Nurse, give leave awhile; / We must talk in secret. Nurse, come back again. / I have rememb'red me, thou's hear our counsel"

Nurse

"Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. / An I might live to see thee married once, / I have my wish."

Lady Capulet

"Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face, / And find delight writ there with beauty's pen"

Mercutio

"And in this state she gallops night by night / Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love;"

Romeo

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

Third Servingman

"We cannot be her are there too. / Cheerly, boys! Be brisk awhile, and the longest liver / take all."

Capulet

"Welcome, gentlemen! I have seen the day / That I have worn a visor and could tell / A whispering tale in a fair lady's ear, / Such as would please."

Romeo

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

Tybalt

"This by his voice should be a Montague. / Fetch me my rapier, boy."

Capulet

"You are a saucy boy. Is't so, indeed? / This trick may chance to scathe you. I know what."

Juliet

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

Juliet

"You kiss by th' book"

Romeo

"O dear account! My life is my foe's debt."

Romeo

"Can I go forward when my heart is here? / Turn back, dull earth, find thy center out"

Mercutio

"Nay I'll conjure too. / Romeo! Humors! Madman! Passion! Lover!"

Benvolio

"Come, he hath hid himself among these trees / To be consorted with the humorous night. / Blind in his love and best befits the dark."

Romeo

"He jests at scars that never felt a wound. / But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?"

Juliet

"O Romeo. Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?"

Romeo

"I have night's cloak to hide me from their eyes; / And but thou love me, let them find me here. / My life were better ended by their hate / Then death prorogued, wanting of thy love."

Juliet

"O, swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon, / That monthly changes in her circled orb, / Lest that thy love prove likewise variable."

Juliet

"Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee, / I have no joy of this contract tonight. / It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden"

Romeo

"O blessed, blessed night! I am afeard, / Being in the night, all this is but a dream, / Too flattering-sweet to be substantial."

Romeo

"I would I were thy bird."

Friar Lawrence

"Nor aught so good but, strained from that fair use, / Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse. / Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, / And vice sometime by action dignified."

Friar Lawrence

"Young men's hearts then lies / Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes."

Mercutio

"Signior Romeo, bonjour! / there's a French salutation to your French slop"

Mercutio

"Nay, if our wits run the wild-goose chase, I / am done; for thou hast more of the wild goose in one of / they wits than, I am sure, I have in my whole five. Was I / with you there for the goose?"

Mercutio

"'Tis no less. I tell ye; for the bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon."

Nurse

"Now, afore God, I am so vexed that every part about / me quivers. Scurvy knave!"

Juliet

"O, she is lame! Love's heralds should be thoughts, / Which ten times faster glides than the sun's beams / Driving back shadows over low'ring hills."

Nurse

"I am aweary, give me leave awhile. / Fie, how my bones ache! What a jaunce have I!"

Nurse

"Well you have made a simple choice; you know not how to choose a man. Romeo? No, not he."

Friar Lawrence

"These violent delights have violent ends..."

Benvolio

"The day is hot; the Capulets, abroad; / And if we meet we shall not 'scape a brawl, / For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring."

Mercutio

"Come, come, thou art as hot as a Jack in thy moods as / any in Italy; and as soon moved to be moody, and as soon / moody to be moved."

Mercutio

"And but one word with one of us? Couple it with / Something; make it a word and a blow.

Tybalt

"You shall find me apt enough to that, sir, and you will / give me occasion."

Mercutio

"Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze. / I will not budge for no man's pleasure"

Romeo

"I do protest I never injured thee, / But love thee better than thou canst devise, / Till thou shalt know the reason my love;"

Mercutio

"A plague a both your houses! / They have made worms' meat of me."

Romeo

"This day's black fate on moe days doth depend; / This but begins the woe others must end."

Benvolio

"Romeo, away, be gone!"

Romeo

"O, I am fortune's fool!"

Lady Capulet

"Tybalt, my cousin! O my brother's child! / O Prince! O cousin! Husband! O, the blood is spilled / Of my dear kinsman!"

Prince

"Romeo slew him, he slew Mercutio; / Who now the price of his dear blood doth owe?"

Juliet

"Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night, / That runaways' eyes may wink, and Romeo / Leap to these arms untalked of and unseen. / Lovers can see to do their amorous rites, / And by their own beauties;"

Nurse

"Ah, weraday! He's dead, he's dead, he's dead.

Juliet

"What devil art thou that dost torment me thus? / This torture should be roared in dismal hell."

Juliet

"Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?"

Romeo

"Ha, banishment! Be merciful, say 'death,' / For exile hath more terror in his look, / Much more than death. Do not say 'banishment.'"

Friar Lawrence

"O deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness! / The fault our law calls death; but the kind Prince, / Taking thy part, hath rushed aside the law, / And turned that black word 'death' to 'banishment' / This is dear mercy, and thou seest it not."

Nurse

"O woeful sympathy! / Piteous predicament! Even so lies she, / blubb'ring and weeping, weeping and blubb'ring."

Friar Lawrence

"Hold thy desperate hand. / Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thou art. / Thy tears are womanish. Thy wild acts denote / The unreasonable fury of a beast. / Unseemly woman in a seeming man, / And ill-beseeming beast in seeming both!"

Nurse

"O Lord, I could have stayed here all the night / To hear good counsel. Oh, what learning is! / My lord, I’ll tell my lady you will come."

Romeo

"But that a joy past joy calls out on me, / It were a grief so brief to part with thee. / Farewell."

Capulet

"Well, we were born to die."

Lady Capulet

"I will, and know her mind early tomorrow; / Tonight she's mewed up to her heaviness."

Romeo

"Let me be ta'en, let me be put to death. / I am content, so thou wilt have it so."

Juliet

"O god! I have an ill-divining soul: / methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, / As one dead in the bottom of a tomb."

Juliet

"O Fortune, Fortune! All men call thee fickle."

Lady Capulet

"Some grief show much of love; / But much grief shows still some want of wit."

Capulet

"When the earth doth drizzle dew, / But for the sunset of my brother's son / It rains downright."

Lady Capulet

"I would the fool were married to her grave."

Juliet

"Not proud you have, but thankful that you have. / Proud can I never be of what I hate, / But thankful even for hate that is meant love."

Capulet

"An you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend. / An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets, / For, by my soul, I’ll ne’er acknowledge thee, / Nor what is mine shall never do thee good. / Trust to ’t, bethink you. I’ll not be forsworn."

Juliet

"Is there no pity sitting in the clouds / That sees into the bottom of my grief?"

Nurse

"I think it best you married with the county. / O, he’s a lovely gentleman. / Romeo’s a dishclout to him."

Juliet

"Ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend! / Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn, / Or to dispraise my lord with that same tongue / Which she hath praised him with above compare / So many thousand times?"

Friar Lawrence

"You say you do not know the lady's mind. / Uneven is the course. I like it not."

Paris

"Now, sir, her father counts it dangerous / That she do give her sorrow so much sway, / And in his wisdom hastes our marriage / To stop the inundation of her tears, / Which, too much minded by herself alone, / May be put from her by society."

Paris

"Poor soul, your face is much abused with tears."

Juliet

"It may be so, for it is not my own."

Friar Lawrence

"O Juliet, I already know thy grief. / It strains me past the compass of my wits."

Friar Lawrence

"Hold, daughter. I do spy a kind of hope, / Which craves as desperate an execution / As that is desperate which we would prevent."

Juliet

"Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble— / And I will do it without fear or doubt, / To live an unstained wife to my sweet love."

Friar Lawrence

"And this shall free thee from this present shame, / If no inconstant toy, nor womanish fear, / Abate thy valor in the acting it."

Juliet

"Give me, give me! O, tell me not of fear!"

Servingman

"You shall have none ill, sir, for I’ll try if they can / lick their fingers."

Juliet

"Where I have learned me to repent the sin / Of disobedient opposition / To you and your behests, and am enjoined / By holy Lawrence to fall prostrate here / To beg your pardon."

Lady Capulet

"We shall be short in our provision. / ‘Tis now near night."

Capulet

"I'll not to bed tonight. Let me alone. / I'll play the housewife for this once."

Juliet

"Farewell. God knows when we shall meet again. / I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins / That almost freezes up the heat of life."

Juliet

"O, look! Methinks I see my cousin's ghost / Seeking out Romeo that did spit his body / Upon a rapier's point."

Nurse

"They call for dates and quinces in the pastry."

Capulet

"A jealous hood, a jealous hood!"

Second Fellow

"I have a head, sir, that will find out logs / And never trouble Peter for the matter."

Nurse

"Alas, alas! Help, help! My lady’s dead! / Oh, welladay, that ever I was born! / Some aqua vitae, ho! My lord! My lady!

Lady Capulet

"O me, O me! My child, my only life, / Revive, look up, or I will die with thee! / Help, help! Call help."