Romeo And Juliet Important Quotes:

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

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Romeo And Juliet Love, Romeo Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Important, Baptized, Romantic Romeo And Juliet

Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

- William Shakespeare

source: 1595 Mercutio. Romeo andJuliet, act1, sc.5, l.51-2.

topic: Romantic, Love You, Heart, Literary Love, Tybalt

My only love sprung from my only hate.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [142]

topic: Love, Dream, Hate, Sprung, Early Love

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Love, I Miss You, Good Night, Sorrow Love, Day And Night

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 1

topic: Memorable, Science, Light, Monologues, Merchant Of Venice

O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title, Romeo, Doth thy name! And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Love, Sweet, Art, Star Crossed Lovers, Family Feud

Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [48]

topic: Love, True Beauty, Torches, Tybalt, Romantic Romeo And Juliet

For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

- William Shakespeare

source: 1595 Prince. Romeo andJuliet, act 5, sc.3, l.308-9.

topic: Romance, Tragedy, Romeo And Juliet Love, Star Crossed Lovers, Romantic Romeo And Juliet

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. . . .

- William Shakespeare

topic: Art, Grief, Moon, Romantic Romeo And Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Important

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

- William Shakespeare

source: 1595 Friar Laurence. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.2, l.21-2.

topic: Vices, Action, Juliet, Friars, Romeo And Juliet Important

These violent delights have violent ends.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Friendship, Delight, Violent, New Moon, Long Love

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Love, Sweet, Flower, Inspirational Flower, Star Crossed Lovers

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

source: William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Edward Capell, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.5

topic: Stars, Blood, Hands, Star Crossed Lovers, Mutiny

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

source: 'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 43

topic: Love, Sweet, Art, Romeo And Juliet Important, Romeo And Juliet Key

where civil blood makes civil hands unclean

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2009). “CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Blood, Hands, Romeo And Juliet Love, Star Crossed Lovers, Family Feud

See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!

- William Shakespeare

topic: Love, Beauty, Hands, My New Love, Cheeks

Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?

- William Shakespeare

topic: Grief, Grieving, Clouds, Tybalt, Bridal

Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, John Boydell, Samuel Johnson (1857). “King Lear. Romeo and Juliet”, p.277

topic: Death, Son, Law, Son-in-law, Romeo And Juliet Important

O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. - Romeo -

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [48]

topic: Night, Jewels, True Beauty, Romantic Romeo And Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Important

O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 4, l. 53

topic: Queens, Lying, Team, Faerie, Romeo And Juliet Important

One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2008). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.52, Barron's Educational Series

topic: Romeo And Juliet Love, World, Saws, Romeo And Juliet Important

Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use, Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2009). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.51, Palgrave Macmillan

topic: Abuse, Birth, Juliet, Friars, Romeo And Juliet Important

Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.149, Classic Books Company

topic: Love, Long, Tardiness, Long Love, Lasting Love

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Love, Wise, Running, Friars, Impulsive

When he shall die, 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 And pay no worship to the garish sun.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 17

topic: Love, Sympathy, Death, Someone Who Is Dying, Inspirational Condolences

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Romeo And Juliet Love, Thumbs, Insult, Romeo And Juliet Important, Romeo And Juliet Play

So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.

- William Shakespeare

source: Hilary Burningham, William Shakespeare (1997). “Romeo & Juliet”, p.13, Evans Brothers

topic: Crow, True Beauty, Torches, Romeo And Juliet Important, Romeo And Juliet Play

For naught so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give.

- William Shakespeare

source: 1595 Friar Laurence. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.2, l.15-18.

topic: Giving, Special, Earth, Friars, Romeo And Juliet Important

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

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

topic: Stars, Eye, Night, Her Eyes, Cheeks

This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.303

topic: Fate, Black, Woe, Romeo And Juliet Important, Romeo And Juliet Juliet