Romeo And Juliet Quotes

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The Prologue

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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 hands make civil blood unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life”

“The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love”

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Act 1 Scene 1 (7)

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“Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace, / Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel” (Prince)

“If you ever disturb our streets again, / Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.” (Prince)

“Many a morning hath he there been seen, / With tears augmenting the fresh morning’s dew” (Lord Montague)

“Shuts up his window, locks fair daylight out, / And makes himself an artificial night” (Lord Montague)

“Ay me, sad hours seem long” (Romeo)

“Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love: / Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate” (Romeo)

“She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow / Do I live dead, that live to tell it now” (Romeo)

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Act 1 Scene 2 (1)

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“Tis not hard, I think / For men as old as we to keep the peace” (Capulet)

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Act 1 Scene 4 (3)

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“I have a soul of lead / So stakes me to the ground I cannot move” (Romeo)

“I dreamt a dream tonight” (Romeo)

“Some consequence yet hanging in the stars ... By some vile forfeit of untimely death” (Romeo)

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Act 1 Scene 5 (5)

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“O she doth teach the torches to burn bright” (Romeo)

“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! / For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” (Romeo)

“is she a Capulet? / O dear account! My life is my foe’s debt” (Romeo)

“Go ask his name. – I f he be married, / My grave is likely to be my wedding bed” (Juliet)

“My only love sprung from my only hate! ... That I must love a loathed enemy” (Juliet)

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Act 2 scene 2 (4)

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“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? / It is the East, and Juliet the sun” (Romeo)

“O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo? / Deny thy father and refuse thy name” (Juliet)

“What’s Montague? It is not hand nor foot / Nor arm nor face, nor any other part / Belonging to a man” (Romeo)

“If that thy bent of love be honourable, / Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow” (Juliet)

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Act 2 Scene 3 (2)

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“With Rosaline, my ghostly father? no; / I have forgot that name, and that name’s woe” (Romeo)

“For this alliance may so happy prove / To turn you households’ rancour to pure love” (Friar Lawrence)

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Act 2 Scene 4 (1)

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“if ye should lead her in a fool’s paradise ... the gentle women is young ... if you should / deal double with her, truly it were an ill thing to be offered to any gentlewomen” (Nurse)

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Act 2 Scene 5 (4)

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“I am a – weary, give me leave a while. / Fie how my bones ache” (Nurse)

“I would thou hadst my bones, and thy news” (Juliet)

“Sweet, sweet, sweet Nurse, tell me, what says my love” (Juliet)

“Then hie you hence to Frair Lawrence’ cell, / There stays a husband to make you a wife” (Nurse)

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Act 2 Scene 6 (1)

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“These violent delights have violent ends” (Friar Lawrence)

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Act 3 Scene 1 (12)

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“By my heel, I care not” (Mercutio)

“Mercutio, thou consortest with Romeo” (Tybalt)

“Men’s eyes were made to look, and let them gaze;/I will not budge for no man’s pleasure, I.” (Mercutio)

“Villain am I none” (Romeo)

“I do protest I never injured thee,/But love thee better than thou canst devise” (Romeo)

“And so, good Capulet, which name I tender/as dearly as mine own, be satisfied” (Romeo)

“O calm, dishonourable, vile submission” (Mercutio)

“A plague a’both your houses!” (Mercutio)

“Hath been my cousin. O sweet Juliet” (Romeo)

“This day’s black fate on moe days doth depend/This but begins the woe others must end” (Romeo)

“O, I am fortune’s fool” (Romeo)

“Immediately we do exile him hence” (Prince)

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Act 3 Scene 2 (4)

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“O God, did Romeo’s hand shed Tybalt’s blood?” (Juliet)

“Shame come to Romeo” (Nurse)

“Blister’d be thy tongue / For such a wish” (Juliet)

“that one word ‘banished’/Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts” (Juliet)

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Act 3 Scene 3 (8)

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“And thou art wedded to calamity” (Friar Lawrence)

“Ha, banishment? be merciful, say ‘death’” (Romeo)

“Be patient, for the whole world is broad and wide” (Friar Lawrence)

“There is no world without Verona walls” (Romeo)

“Calling death ‘bandished’/They cut’st my head off with a golden axe” (Romeo)

“This is dear mercy, and thou seest it not” (Friar Lawrence)

“’Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here/Where Juliet lives” (Romeo)

“Stand up, stand up, and you be a man;/For Juliet’s sake, for her sake, rise and stand” (Nurse)

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Act 3 Scene 5 (3)

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“O God! – O nurse, How shall this be prevented” (Juliet)

“Romeo is banish’d, and all the world to nothing” (Nurse)

“I think it best you married with the County” (Nurse)

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Act 4 Scene 1 (1)

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“I will do it without fear or doubt,/To live an unstained wife to my sweet love” (Juliet)

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Act 4 Scene 5 (1)

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“Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir,/My daughter he hath wedded. I will die” (Capulet)

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Act 5 Scene 1 (4)

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“I dreamt my lady came and found me dead…And breath’d such life kisses in my lips” (Romeo)

“For nothing can be ill if she be well” (Romeo)

“Is it e’en so? then I defy you, stars!” (Romeo)

“A dram of poison” (Romeo)

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Act 5 Scene 2 (1)

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“Unhappy fortune! … The letter was not nice but full of charge,/Of dear import” (Friar Lawrence)

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Act 5 Scene 3 (14)

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“The time and my intents are savage-wild” (Romeo)

“Good gently youth, tempt not a desp’rate man” (Romeo)

“Death, that hath suck’d the honey of thy breath” (Romeo)

“Forgive me, cousin” (Romeo)

“O here/ will I set up my everlasting rest/ and shake the yoke of inauspicious stars” (Romeo)

“Fear comes upon me./ O, much I fear some ill unthrifty thing” (Friar Lawrence)

“A greater power than we can contradict/ hath thwarted our intents” (Friar Lawrence)

“Poison I see hath been his timeless end/ o churl, drunk all, and left no friendly drop/ drop help me after” (Juliet)

“Thy lips are warm” (Juliet)

“We still have known thee for a holy man” (Prince)

“See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,/That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love!” (Prince)

“And I for winking at your discords too/ have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are pinish’d” (Prince)

“O brother Montague” (Capulet)

“True and faithful Juliet” (Montague)