Romeo Juliet Quotes:

O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)

- William Shakespeare

topic: Thinking, Forget, Romeo Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Romeo

Out of her favour, where I am in love.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (1747). “Romeo and Juliet. A tragedy. Now acting ... by his Majesty's Servants, at the Theatre-Royal in Smock-Alley”, p.10

topic: Romeo And Juliet Love, Favour, Romeo Juliet, Romantic Romeo And Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Juliet

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

Mercutio: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2013). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.87, Callisto Media Inc

topic: Love Is, Romeo And Juliet Love, Romeo Juliet, Romantic Romeo And Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Play

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

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

You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Wings, Lovers, Common, Cupid, Romeo And Juliet 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- William Shakespeare

topic: Grief, Grieving, Clouds, Tybalt, Bridal

Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.

- William Shakespeare

source: Aidan Coleman, Shane Barnes, William Shakespeare (2008). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.30, Insight Publications

topic: Love, Sadness, Hours, Romantic Romeo And Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Juliet

Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Love, Waste, Juliet, Wastage, Romeo Juliet

How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath?

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.816

topic: Art, Juliet, Breaths, Romeo And Juliet Romeo, Romeo Juliet

Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (1829). “Dramatic Works: Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone”, p.780

topic: Grief, Want, Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Juliet, Romeo Juliet

I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

- William Shakespeare

source: 1595 Romeo to Juliet. Romeo andJuliet, act 3, sc.5, l.9-11.

topic: Gone, Juliet, Dies, Romeo And Juliet Romeo, Romeo Juliet

Benvolio- "By my head, here come the Capulets." Mercutio- "By my heel, I care not.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2012). “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”, p.60, Hackett Publishing

topic: Care, Juliet, Tybalt, Romeo And Juliet Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Romeo

The weakest goes to the wall.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2012). “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”, p.4, Hackett Publishing

topic: Wall, Weakness, Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Romeo

Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (1871). “A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. 1871”, p.81

topic: Prayer, Saint, Use, Romeo And Juliet Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Romeo

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

O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From the world-wearied flesh

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 5, sc. 3, l. 102

topic: Stars, Yoke, World, New Moon, Romeo And Juliet Juliet

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

True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1828). “The dramatic works of William Shakespeare”, p.392

topic: Dream, Children, Air, Romeo And Juliet Love, Romeo And Juliet Play

Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, James N. Loehlin (2002). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.97, Cambridge University Press

topic: Love You, Eye, Views, Romeo And Juliet Love, Romeo Juliet

The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. 72

topic: Law, World, Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Romeo

Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Plays”, p.37

topic: Lying, Sleep, Eye, Never Sleep, Romeo And Juliet Romeo

He that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.68, Classic Books Company

topic: Juliet, Sail, Courses, Romeo And Juliet Romeo, Romeo Juliet

I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.43

topic: Moving, Eye, Giving, Romeo And Juliet Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Play

Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 156

topic: Love, Dream, Book, Romeo And Juliet Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Love

Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2017). “Romeo and Juliet (English Russian illustrated edition): Ромео и Джульетта (английская русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.67, Clap Publishing, LLC.

topic: Giving, Romeo And Juliet Love, Lips, Romeo And Juliet Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Play

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

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Love, Valentines Day, Passion, Discreet, Special Love

Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.116, Classic Books Company

topic: Lying, Heart, Eye, Friars, Love Lies

What sadness lengthens Romeo’s hours?

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.20, Classic Books Company

topic: Romeo Juliet

Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2008). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.40, Barron's Educational Series

topic: Hate, Unrequited Love, Sleep, Romeo And Juliet Juliet, Romeo Juliet

Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2009). “CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Pain, Grief, Men, Giddy, Burn Out

He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2012). “3 by Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet and Richard III”, p.86, Courier Corporation

topic: Treasure, Forget, Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Romeo

For you and I are past our dancing days.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [35]

topic: Love, Past, Dancing, Romeo And Juliet Play, Romeo And Juliet Romeo

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet

- William Shakespeare

topic: Summer, Flower, Love You, Ripening, Summer Flower

Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.

- 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.374

topic: Honey, New Moon, Juliet, Kiss Of Death, Romeo And Juliet Play

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

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

All's well that ends well.

- John Heywood

source: John Heywood (1867). “The proverbs and epigrams of John Heywood: with an app. of variations”, p.21

topic: Wisdom, Finishing, Ends, Life Wisdom, Spanish Proverb