Romeo And Juliet Key Quotes:

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

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

I'll look to like; if looking, liking move.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (1853). “Romeo and Juliet ...”, p.38

topic: Moving, Looks, Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Key

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

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.57, Classic Books Company

topic: Love, Rude, Boisterous, Romeo And Juliet Key, Romeo And Juliet Love

These violent delights have violent ends.

- William Shakespeare

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

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

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 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

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Men, Scar, Inhumanity, Wounds And Scars, Romeo And Juliet Key

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Love, Wise, Running, Friars, Impulsive

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

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

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

If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2007). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.46, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

topic: Kissing, Hands, Two, Blushing, 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

she shall scant show well that now shows best.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.41, Classic Books Company

topic: Romeo And Juliet Juliet, Shows, Wells, Romeo And Juliet Key

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

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Alexander Pope (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentick Copies, and Revised; with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added, an Essay on the Chronological Order of His Plays; an Essay Relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a Dissertation on the Three Parts of King Henry VI; an Historical Account of the English Stage; and Notes; by Edmond Malone”, p.98

topic: Compassion, Murder, Juliet, Mercy And Forgiveness, Tybalt

You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2001). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.205, Classic Books Company

topic: Shoes, Dancing, Soul, Romeo And Juliet Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Key

I have a soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2013). “Romeo and Juliet In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.38, BookCaps Study Guides

topic: Moving, Soul, Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Key

The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Honey, Taste, Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Key, Romeo And Juliet Love