Romeo and Juliet Quotes

• Juliet Act 1 Scene 3

  "It is an honour that I dream not of"
• Juliet - Act 1 Scene 5 x2

  “My grave is like to be my wedding bed”

  “My only love sprung from my only hate”
• The Nurse - Act 1 Scene 3 x2

  “And I might live to see thee married once,/ I have my wish”

  “Bigger women grow by men”
• Lady Capulet - Act 1 Scene 3

  “Verona’s summer hath not such a flower”
• Capulet - Act 1 Scene 2

  “Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light”
• Mercutio - Act 1 Scene 4

  “If love be rough with you, be rough with love”
• Romeo - Act 1 Scene 1

  “Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, /Still-waking sleep that is not what it is!”
• Romeo - Act 1 Scene 2

  “When the devout religion of mine eye,/ Maintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires”
• Romeo - Act 1 Scene 4

  “By some vile forfeit of untimely death.”
• Romeo - Act 1 Scene 5

  “Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.”
• Prologue

  “ A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life”
• The Prince - Act 1 Scene 1

  “Once more, on pain of death, all men depart”.
• Theme - feuding in Act 1 Scene 1

  “No sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir”
• Benvolio - any scene

  I chose: Act 1 Scene 1

  “By giving liberty unto thine eyes,/ Examine other beauties”
• Love x2

  “My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand

  To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss”.

  “Can I go forward when my heart is here?”
• Conflict x2

  “My only love sprung from my only hate!”

  “Is she a Capulet?

  O dear account! my life is my foe's debt.”
• Chorus x 1

  “Being held a foe, he may not have access

  To breathe such vows as lovers use to swear”
• Romeo x2

  “It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”

  “With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls”
• Juliet x2

  “O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?

  Deny thy father and refuse thy name”

  “If they do see thee, they will murder thee”.
• Benvolio x1

  “Romeo! my cousin Romeo!”
• Mercutio x2

  “Nay, I'll conjure too.”

  “If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.”
• Romeo - He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
• Friar Lawrence - The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb;

  What is her burying grave that is her womb
• Romeo - That thou consent to marry us to-day.
• Mercutio - Alas poor Romeo! he is already dead; stabbed with a

  white wench's black eye; shot through the ear with a

  love-song;
• Mercutio - More than prince of cats, I can tell you.
• Benvolio - Two, two; a shirt and a smock.
• Juliet - Hie to high fortune! Honest nurse, farewell.
• FL - So smile the heavens upon this holy act,

  That after hours with sorrow chide us not!
• J - But my true love is grown to such excess

  I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.
• Benvolio - For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.
• Mercutio - I am hurt.

  A plague o' both your houses!
• Mercutio - They have made worms' meat of me: I have it,

  And soundly too: your houses!
• Romeo - for Mercutio's soul

  Is but a little way above our heads,
• Romeo - O, I am fortune's fool!
• The Prince - I will be deaf to pleading and excuses;
• Juliet - Take him and cut him out in little stars,

  And he will make the face of heaven so fine

  That all the world will be in love with night
• Juliet - O, I have bought the mansion of a love,

  But not possess'd it,
• Juliet - All slain, all dead. 'Romeo is banished!'
• Paris - My lord, I would that Thursday were to-morrow.