Romeo And Juliet Important Quotes

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

  William Shakespeare

  Romantic, Love You, Heart

  1595 Mercutio. Romeo andJuliet, act1, sc.5, l.51-2.

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• My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Romance, Enemy

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [142]

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• Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, I Miss You, Good Night

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 176

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• But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Science, Light

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Rain, Play

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 33

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• Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!

  William Shakespeare

  Love, True Beauty, Torches

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [48]

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

  William Shakespeare

  Romance, Tragedy, Romeo And Juliet Love

  1595 Prince. Romeo andJuliet, act 5, sc.3, l.308-9.

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• 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. . . .

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Grief, Moon

  William Shakespeare, Thomas BOWDLER (F.R.S.) (1831). “The Family Shakspeare ... By T. Bowdler ... Sixth Edition”, p.824

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• Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

  William Shakespeare

  Vices, Action, Juliet

  1595 Friar Laurence. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.2, l.21-2.

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• These violent delights have violent ends.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Romeo And Juliet Love, Delight

  1595 Friar Laurence. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.5, l.9.

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• What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Flower

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 43

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• Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Blood, Hands

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Edward Capell, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.5

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• My only love sprung from my only hate.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Dream, Hate

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [142]

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• O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love... 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
  What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Art

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 43

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• where civil blood makes civil hands unclean

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Hands, Romeo And Juliet Love

  William Shakespeare (2009). “CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Beauty, Hands

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 23

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

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Grieving, Clouds

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 5, l. 198

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• Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Son, Law

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, John Boydell, Samuel Johnson (1857). “King Lear. Romeo and Juliet”, p.277

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• Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.

  William Shakespeare

  True Beauty, Romeo And Juliet Love, Torches

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [48]

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• O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Queens, Lying, Team

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 4, l. 53

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

  William Shakespeare

  Romeo And Juliet Love, World, Saws

  William Shakespeare (2008). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.52, Barron's Educational Series

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• Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use,
  Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.

  William Shakespeare

  Abuse, Birth, Juliet

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.51, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Long, Tardiness

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.149, Classic Books Company

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• Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Wise, Running

  1595 Friar Laurence to Romeo. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.2, l.94.

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• O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. - Romeo -

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Jewels, True Beauty

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [48]

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