Romeo and Juliet Quotes

Act I What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word As I hate Hell, all Montagues, and thee. (I.i,77-78) A crutch, a crutch! Why call you for a sword? (I.i,83) If ever you disturb our streets again, Your lives shall pay the forfeit of peace. (I.i,103-104)

Could we but learn for whence his sorrows grow, We would as willingly give cure as know ( I, i.) O, teach me how I should forget to think. (I, i.) Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die. (I, ii)

Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days. (I, iii.) Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, Too Rude, too boist’ rous, and pricks like thorns. ( I, iv.) If love be rough with you, be rough with love Prick love for the pricking, and you beat love down. (I, iv.)

For my mind misgives Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night's revels, and expire the term Of a despised life closed in my breast By some vile forfeit of untimely death. (I.v,106-111)

You will set a cock-a-hoop! You'll be the man! (I.v,84) Oh, dear account! My life is my foe's debt. (I.v,120)

Act II But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun! (II.ii,2-3) O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? (II.ii,33)

That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. (II.ii,43-44) Parting is such sweet sorrow (II.ii,184) I have forgot that name and that name's woe. (II.iii,46)

In one respect I'll thy assistant be; For this alliance may so happy prove, To turn your households' rancor to pure love. (II.iii,90-93) Alas, poor Romeo, he is already dead! Stabbed with a white wench's black eye, shot through the ear with a love song, the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind bowboy's butt shaft. (II.iv,12-16)

These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die, like fire and powder Which as they kiss consume. (II.iv,9-11)

Act III I do protest I never injured thee, But love thee better than thou canst devise Till thou shalt know the reason of my love. (III.i,71-72)

A plague o' both your houses! (III.i,111) Oh, I am fortune's fool! (III.i,141) Ah, welladay! He's dead, he's dead, he's dead. We are undone, lady, we are undone. Alack the day! He's gone, he's killed, he's dead. (III.ii,36-38)

Wash they his wounds with tears. Mine shall be spent, When theirs are dry, for Romeo's banishment. (III.ii,130-131) Affliction is enamored of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. (III.iii,2-3)

thy wild acts denote The unreasonable fury of a beast. I thought thy disposition better tempered. (III.iii,110-115) Romeo is coming. (III.iii,158)

Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops. I must be gone and live, or stay and die. (III.v,9-11)

Me thinks I see thee, now thou art below, As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. (III.v,55-56) Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit. (III.v,73-74)

Graze where you will, you shall not house with me. (III.v,190) Delay this marriage for a month, a week; Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed In that dim monument where Tybalt lies. (III.v,201-203)

Act IV My dismal scene I needs must act alone. Come vial. (IV.iii,19-20) Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir (IV.v,38)

I dreamed my lady came and found me dead -- (V.i,6) Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight. (V.i,34) Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man. Fly hence and leave me. (V.iii,59-60)

Act V I dreamed my lady came and found me dead -- (V.i,6) Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight. (V.i,34)

Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man. Fly hence and leave me. (V.iii,59-60) How oft when men are at the point of death Have they been merry! Which their keepers call A lightning before death. (V.iii,88-90)

Capulet! Montague! See what a scourge is laid upon your hate That Heaven finds means to kill your joys with love! And I, for winking at your discords too, Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished. (V.iii,291-295)