Romeo and Juliet Key Quotes

• Prologue


  "pair of star crossed lovers", "ancient grudge", "death marked love", "civil blood makes civil hands unclean", "parents rage"
• Prince's 1st Speech


  "you men, you beasts", "do you bite your thumb at me sir?"
• Romeo's "love" for Rosaline

  "O brawling love, o loving hate, o anything of first create!", "saint- seducing gold", "cold fire", "heavy lightness", "examine other beauties", "I have a soul of lead"
• Capulet "wooing" Paris


  "she hath not seen the change of fourteen years", "my child is yet a stranger in the world", "but woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart"
• Romeo and Juliet's first meeting


  "for I ne'er saw true beauty until this night", "you kiss by th' book", "burn bright", "cheek of night", "that villain Romeo", "rich jewel"
• Balcony Scene


  "and I'll no longer be a Capulet", "Romeo doff thy name", "what's in a name?", "o Romeo, Romeo, wherefore thou art Romeo?", "I'll be new baptised", "What's Montague?", "she doth teaches the torches to burn bright", "Juliet is the sun"
• Juliet awaits news from the nurse

  "let me be satisfied, is it good or bad?", "where is your mother?", "are you so hot?", "do you not see I am out of breath"
• Romeo and Juliet get married


  "these violent delights have violent ends", "love- devouring death", "my true love is grown to such excess", "too swift arrives as tardy as too slow"
• The big fight


  "thou art a villain", "I am hurt", "O I am fortune's fool", "A plague on both your houses", "you shall find me a grave man", "good Capulet, which name I tender as dearly a my own"
• Juliet discovers the Tybalt's death


  "serpent heart", "beautiful tyrant", "honourable villain", "he's dead, he's dead, he's dead", "o Tybalt, the best friend I ever had", "Tybalt is dead and Romeo banished"
• Romeo bemoans his banishment and tries to kill himself


  "There is no world without Verona walls", "Heaven is here, where Juliet lives", "unmade grave", "art thou a man?", "thy tears are womanish"
• A romantic night


  "nightingale", "lark", "let me be put to death", "dead in the bottom of a tomb"
• Juliet tells Capulet she will not marry Paris

  "hang, beg, starve in the streets", "you will not house with me", "my fingers itch", "disobedient wretch"
• Juliet agonises over drinking the potion

  "what if it be a poison", "what if this mixture do not work at all", "faint cold fear thrills", "Romeo, Romeo, Romeo!"
• Juliet's "corpse" is found

  "o child", "loving child", "my soul",
• Romeo buys the poison

  "I defy you, stars!", "have patience", "Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight", "I dreamt my lady came and found me dead"
• Romeo kills Paris


  "condemned villain", "vile Montague"
• Romeo commits suicide


  "Forgive me cousin", "why art thou so fair?", "thus with a kiss, I die"
• Juliet commits suicide


  "Where is my Romeo?", "O happy dagger"
• Ending


  "All are punished", "For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo"