Romeo And Juliet Romeo Quotes

• Look, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east! Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tip-toe on the misty mountain-tops.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Clouds, Mountain

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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• You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead.

  William Shakespeare

  Shoes, Dancing, Soul

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.205, Classic Books Company

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• It is my soul that calls upon my name; How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears! -Romeo

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Night, Names

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 158

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• How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Juliet, Breaths

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.816

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• Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Sleep, Eye

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Plays”, p.37

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• He that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail.

  William Shakespeare

  Juliet, Sail, Courses

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.68, Classic Books Company

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• One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Fire, Burning

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.36, Classic Books Company

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• O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Forget, Romeo Juliet

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• Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lying, Eye

  William Shakespeare, James N. Loehlin (2002). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.136, Cambridge University Press

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• O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Eye, Kissing

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 5, sc. 3, l. 102

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• I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

  William Shakespeare

  Gone, Juliet, Dies

  1595 Romeo to Juliet. Romeo andJuliet, act 3, sc.5, l.9-11.

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• Is there no pity sitting in the clouds That sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me not away! Delay this marriage for a month, a week, Or if you do not, make the bridal bed In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Sweet, Lying

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.186

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• The weakest goes to the wall.

  William Shakespeare

  Wall, Weakness, Juliet

  William Shakespeare (2012). “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”, p.4, Hackett Publishing

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• Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast!
  Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Sleep, Eye

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

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• Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Saint, Use

  William Shakespeare (1871). “A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. 1871”, p.81

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• For naught so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Special, Earth

  1595 Friar Laurence. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.2, l.15-18.

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• O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From the world-wearied flesh

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Yoke, World

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 5, sc. 3, l. 102

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• Death lies on her like an untimely frost.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Lying, Frost

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 4, sc. 5, l. 25

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

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Children, Brain

  1595 Mercutio. Romeo andJuliet, act1, sc.4, l.96-8.

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• I'll look to like; if looking, liking move.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Looks, Juliet

  William Shakespeare (1853). “Romeo and Juliet ...”, p.38

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• for Mercutio's soul Is but a little way above our heads, Staying for thine to keep him company: Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.

  William Shakespeare

  Soul, Littles, Way

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.262, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Heart, Eye

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.116, Classic Books Company

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• You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.

  William Shakespeare

  Wings, Romeo And Juliet Love, Lovers

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.56, Classic Books Company

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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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