The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

Quotes to know…

“I do but keep the peace: put up thy swordOr manage it to part these men with me.”

“I do but keep the peace: put up thy swordOr manage it to part these men with me.”

-Benvolio, I.i.60-61

“O, where is Romeo?-saw you him to-day?-Right glad I am that he was not at this fray.”

“O, where is Romeo?-saw you him to-day?-Right glad I am that he was not at this fray.”

Lady Montague, I.i.108-109

“Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love:-Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!

O anything of nothing first create!”

“Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love:-Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!

O anything of nothing first create!”

Romeo, I.i.167-169

“By giving liberty unto thine eyes;Examine other beauties.”

“By giving liberty unto thine eyes;Examine other beauties.”

Benvolio, I.i.219-220

“Oh teach me how I should forget to think.”

“Oh teach me how I should forget to think.”

Romeo, I.i.218

“I’ll look to like if looking liking move:But no more deep will I endart mine

eyeThan your consent gives strength to

make it fly.”

“I’ll look to like if looking liking move:But no more deep will I endart mine

eyeThan your consent gives strength to

make it fly.”Juliet, I.iii.97-99

“A man, young lady! Lady, such a manAs all the world—why he is a man of wax.”

“A man, young lady! Lady, such a manAs all the world—why he is a man of wax.”

Nurse, I.iii.75-76

“I’ll look to like if looking liking move:But no more deep will I endart mine

eyeThan your consent gives strength to

make it fly.”

“I’ll look to like if looking liking move:But no more deep will I endart mine

eyeThan your consent gives strength to

make it fly.”Juliet, I.iii.97-99

“You are a lover; borrow Cupid’s wings,

And soar with them above a common bound.”

“You are a lover; borrow Cupid’s wings,

And soar with them above a common bound.”

Mercutio, I.iv.17-18

“It seems she hangs upon the cheek of nightLike a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear;

Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!”

“It seems she hangs upon the cheek of nightLike a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear;

Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!”

Romeo, I.v.42-45

“I will withdraw: but this intrusion shall,

Now seeming sweet, convert to bitter gall.”

“I will withdraw: but this intrusion shall,

Now seeming sweet, convert to bitter gall.”

Tybalt, I.v. 89-91

“See how she leans her cheek upon her hand!

O I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek!”

“See how she leans her cheek upon her hand!

O I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek!”

Romeo, II.ii.23-25

“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet;”

“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet;”

Juliet, II.ii.43-44

“With loves light wings did I o’erperch these walls;”

“With loves light wings did I o’erperch these walls”

Romeo, II.ii.66

“Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face;

Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek

For that which thou has heard me speak to-night.”

“Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face;

Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek

For that which thou has heard me speak to-night.”Juliet, II.ii.85-87

“Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing.”

“Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing.”

Juliet, II.ii.185

“Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied;And vice sometimes by action dignified.Within the infant rind of this small flower

Poison hath residence, and medicine power;For this being smelt, with that part cheers each part;

Being tasted slays all senses with the heart.”

“Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied;And vice sometimes by action dignified.Within the infant rind of this small flower

Poison hath residence, and medicine power;For this being smelt, with that part cheers each part;

Being tasted slays all senses with the heart.”

Friar, II.iii.21-26

“Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift;Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.”

“Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift;Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.”

Friar, II.iii.55-56

“I pray thee chide me not: she whom I love now

Doth grace for grace and love for love allow”

“I pray thee chide me not: she whom I love now

Doth grace for grace and love for love allow”

Romeo, II.iii.85-86

“More than the prince of cats, I can tell you.”

“More than the prince of cats, I can tell you.”

Mercutio, II.iv.18

“A gentleman, nurse that loves to hear himself talk; and

will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.”

“A gentleman, nurse that loves to hear himself talk; and

will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.”Romeo, II.iv.134-135

“…if ye should lead her into a fool’s paradise, as they say…”

“…if ye should lead her into a fool’s paradise, as they say…”

Nurse, II.iv.148-149

“These violent delights have violent ends.”

“These violent delights have violent ends.”

Friar, II.vi.9

“Thou would quarrel with a man forcracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou hast

hazel eyes…”

“Thou would quarrel with a man forcracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou hast

hazel eyes…”

Mercutio, III.i.19-20

“I do protest I never injur’d thee;But love thee better than thou canst devise”

“I do protest I never injur’d thee;But love thee better than thou canst devise”

Romeo, III.i.65-66

“No, ‘tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church

door; but tis enough, ‘twill serve”

“No, ‘tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church

door; but tis enough, ‘twill serve”

Mercutio, III.i.93-94

“…or if love be blind, It best agrees with night-Come, civil night,Thou sober-suited matron, all in black…”

“…or if love be blind, It best agrees with night-Come, civil night,Thou sober-suited matron, all in black…”

Juliet, III.ii.9-11

“O Tybalt, Tybalt, the best friend I had!”

“O Tybalt, Tybalt, the best friend I had!”

Nurse, III.ii.61

“O serpent heart with a flowering face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?”

“O serpent heart with a flowering face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?”

Juliet, III.ii.73-74

“Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say ‘death;’For exile hath more terror in his look,

much more than death; do not say ‘banishment.’”

“Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say ‘death;’For exile hath more terror in his look,

much more than death; do not say ‘banishment.’”

Romeo, III.iii.12-14

“Be patient for the world is broad and wide.”

“Be patient for the world is broad and wide.”

Friar, III.iii.16

“O, then I see that madmen have no ears.”

“O, then I see that madmen have no ears.”

Friar, III.iii.61

“A pack of blessings lights upon thy back;Happiness courts thee in her best array;But, like a misbehav’d and sullen wench,

Thou pout’st upon thy fortune and thy love;-Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable.”

“A pack of blessings lights upon thy back;Happiness courts thee in her best array;But, like a misbehav’d and sullen wench,

Thou pout’st upon thy fortune and thy love;-Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable.”

Friar, III.iii.141-145

“Monday! ha ha! Well, Wednesday is too soon,Thursday let it be…”

“Monday! ha ha! Well, Wednesday is too soon,

Thursday let it be…”Capulet, III.iv.19-20

“Yond light is not daylight, I know it, I;It is some meteor that the sun exhalesTo be to thee this night a torch-bearerAnd light thee on the way to Mantua;

Therefore stay yet, thou need’st not to be gone”

“Yond light is not daylight, I know it, I;It is some meteor that the sun exhalesTo be to thee this night a torch-bearerAnd light thee on the way to Mantua;

Therefore stay yet, thou need’st not to be gone”

Juliet, III.v.12-16

“O God! I have an ill-divining soul!Methinks I see thee, now thour art

below,As one dead in the bottom of a

tomb:Either my eyesight fails, or thou

look’st pale.”

“O God! I have an ill-divining soul!Methinks I see thee, now thou art

below,As one dead in the bottom of a

tomb:Either my eyesight fails, or thou

look’st pale.”Juliet, III.v.54-57

“What wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears?

An if thou couldst, thou could not make him live;

Therfore have done: some grief shows much of love;

But much grief shows still some want of wit.”

“What wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears?

An if thou couldst, thou could not make him live;

Therfore have done: some grief shows much of love;

But much grief shows still some want of wit.”Lady Capulet, III.v.70-73

“Villain and he be many miles asunder.-”

“Villain and he be many miles asunder.-”

Juliet, III.v.81

“An you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend;And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die i’ the streets,

For, by my soul, I’ll ne’er acknowledge thee,”

“An you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend;And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die i’ the streets,

For, by my soul, I’ll ne’er acknowledge thee,”

Capulet, III.v.193-195

“Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt’s death, And therefore have I little talk’d of love;

For Venus smiles not in a house of tears.”

“Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt’s death, And therefore have I little talk’d of love;

For Venus smiles not in a house of tears.”

Paris, IV.i.6-8

“ I will confess to you that I love him.”

“ I will confess to you that I love him.”

Juliet, IV.i.25

“I’ll have this knot knit up to-morrow morning.”

“I’ll have this knot knit up to-morrow morning.”

Capulet, IV.ii.24

“Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir”

“Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir”

Capulet, IV.v.40

“I dreamt that my lady came and found me dead,-Strange dream, that gives a man leave to think!-”

“I dreamt that my lady came and found me dead,-Strange dream, that gives a man leave to think!-”

Romeo, V.i.6-7

“Than she is well and nothing can be ill;Her body sleeps in Capel’s monument,

And her immortal part with angels lives.”

“Than she is well and nothing can be ill;Her body sleeps in Capel’s monument,

And her immortal part with angels lives.”

Balthasar, V.i.17-19

“My poverty, but not my will consents.”

“My poverty, but not my will consents.”

Apothecary, V.i.75

“There is thy gold; worse poison to men’s souls, Doing more murders in this loathsome world

Than these poor compounds that you mayst not sell;”

“There is thy gold; worse poison to men’s souls, Doing more murders in this loathsome world

Than these poor compounds that you mayst not sell;”

Romeo, V.i.80-82

“…If thou be merciful, Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet.”

“…If thou be merciful, Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet.”

Paris, V.iii.72-73

“Death, that hath suck’d the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty;

Thou art not conquer’d…”

“Death, that hath suck’d the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty;

Thou art not conquer’d…”

Romeo, V.iii.92-94

“O churl! drink all, and left no friendly dropTo help me after?”

“O churl! drink all, and left no friendly dropTo help me after?”

Juliet, V.iii.163-164

“For I will give thee more:For I will raise her statue in pure gold.”

“For I will give thee more:For I will raise her statue in pure gold.”

Montague, V.iii.298-299

“For never was a story of more woeThan this of Juliet and her Romeo.”

“For never was a story of more woeThan this of Juliet and her Romeo.”

Prince, V.iii.309-310