Romeo Juliet Quotes

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

  William Shakespeare

  Romeo And Juliet Love, Thumbs, Insult

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. [50]

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Mercutio: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love Is, Romeo And Juliet Love, Romeo And Juliet Romeo

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.87, Callisto Media Inc

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• The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Eye, Night

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.812

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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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• Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sadness, Hours

  Aidan Coleman, Shane Barnes, William Shakespeare (2008). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.30, Insight Publications

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• Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Loving Someone, Waste

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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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• Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Want, Juliet

  William Shakespeare (1829). “Dramatic Works: Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone”, p.780

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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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• 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, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick and green And none but fools do wear it; cast it off. It is my lady, O, it is my love! Oh, that she knew she were!

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Grief, Moon

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 10

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• Out of her favour, where I am in love.

  William Shakespeare

  Romeo And Juliet Love, Favour, Romeo And Juliet Romeo

  William Shakespeare (1747). “Romeo and Juliet. A tragedy. Now acting ... by his Majesty's Servants, at the Theatre-Royal in Smock-Alley”, p.10

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• I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

  William Shakespeare

  Romeo And Juliet Love, Romeo And Juliet Important, Thee

  1595 Romeo. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.1, l.93-4.

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• Benvolio- "By my head, here come the Capulets." Mercutio- "By my heel, I care not.

  William Shakespeare

  Care, Juliet, Tybalt

  William Shakespeare (2012). “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”, p.60, Hackett Publishing

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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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• 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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