Romeo and Juliet: Quotes

What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word

As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.

• Tybalt Act 1, Scene 1

I look to like, if looking liking move

• Juliet Act 1, Scene 3

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough,

Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn

• Romeo Act 1, Scene 4

For my mind misgives

Some consequences, yet hanging in the stars

• Romeo Act 1, Scene 4

O she doth teach the torches to burn bright!

It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night

As a jewel in an Ethiop’s ear

• Romeo Act 1, Scene 5

But soft what light through yonder window breaks?

It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon.

• Romeo Act 2, Scene 2

With love’s light wings did I o’er-perch these walls;

For stony limits cannot hold love out

• Romeo Act 2, Scene 2

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet

• Juliet Act 2, Scene 2

Do not swear at all;

Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,

Which is the god of my idolatry,

And I’ll believe thee.

• Juliet Act 2, Scene 2

Good night, good night! parting is such a sweet sorrow,

That I shall say good night till it be morrow

• Romeo Act 2, Scene 2

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast

• Friar Lawrence Act 2, Scene 3

Now art thou social, now art thou Romeo

• Mercutio Act 2, Scene 4

These violent delights have violent have violent ends,

And in their triumph die like fire and powder

• Friar Lawrence Act 2, Scene 6

A plague o’ both your houses!

• Mercutio Act 3 Scene 1

I beg for justice, which thou, must give;

Romeo slew Tybalt, Romeo must not live

• Lady Capulet Act 3, Scene 1

O, I am fortune’s fool!

• Romeo Act 3, Scene 1

Ha, banishment! be merciful, say ‘death’;

For exile hath more terror in his look,

Much more than death

• Romeo Act 3, Scene 3

More light and light; more dark and dark our woes!

• Romeo Act 3, Scene 5

He shall not make me there a joyful bride.

I wonder at this haste; that I must wed

Ere he, that should be husband, comes to woo.

• Juliet Act 3, Scene 5

My dismal scene I needs must act alone.

Come, vial.

• Juliet Act 4, Scene 3

Is it even so? then I defy you, stars!

• Romeo Act 5, Scene 1

Here’s to my love!

O true apothecary!

Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.

• Romeo Act 5, Scene 3

A greater power than we can contradict

Hath twarted our intents.

• Friar Lawrence Act 5, Scene 3

O happy dagger!

This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die

• Juliet Act 5, Scene 3

Go hence, to have more talk of these sad thins;

Some shall be pardon’d and some punished:

For never was a story of more woe

Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

• The Prince