Romeo & Juliet Quotations

'A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life' - Prologue - tells us that Romeo and Juliet are not "supposed" to be together and are going to die

'That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet' - Juliet, Act 2 Scene 2 - no matter what their surename is they are going to love each other like any other person loves

'Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Here's drink - I drink to thee' - Juliet, Act 4 Scene 3 - drinks to her love hoping to see him again

'Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight' - Romeo, Act 5 Scene 1 - He wants to die with her, wants to be with her forever

'Thus with a kiss I die' - Romeo, Act 5 Scene 3 - He dies after kissing Juliet for one final time

'O happy dagger. This is thy sheath; there rust and let me die' - Juliet, Act 5 Scene 3 - She dies after seeing Romeo dead, dies by using his dagger

'For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo' - Prince, Act 5 Scene 3 - acknowledges the relationship and that they are dead

'Doth with their death bury their parents' strife' - Prologue - Parents fix things once they're children are dead, but there was a conflict between them to begin with

''Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace, / Profaners of this neighbour-stainèd steel / ... / Cankered with peace, to part you cankered hate' - Prince, Act 1 Scene 1 - he threatens the two families as their servants were fighting,

'These violent delights have violent ends' - Friar Lawrence, Act 2 Scene 5 - foreshadowing what is to come (their deaths), that no matter the good things something bad will happen

'let my old life / Be sacrificed' - Friar Lawrence, Act 5 Scene 3 - He summarises the entire play as part of his confession, and wants the prince to punish him as he is old

'Some shall be pardoned, and some punished' - Prince, Act 5 Scene 3 - The Friar will most likely be punished but the Lord's of the houses will probably be pardoned as their children just died

'My child is yet a stranger in the world / ... / But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart / My will to her consent is but a part' - Lord Capulet, Act 1 Scene 2 - Protecting Juliet and allowing her to have a choice in whom she loves as long as it's the right person

'Is she a Capulet? O, dear account! My life is my foe's dept' - Romeo, Act 1 Scene 5 - About Juliet after their first meeting and when he finds out she is a Capulet 

'My only love sprung from my only hate' - Juliet, Act 1 Scene 5 - Romeo the only man she loves is a Montague the only people she hates

'Deny thy Father and refuse thy name' - Juliet, Act 2 Scene 2 - Asking Romeo to abandon his family and his name so that they can be together

'For this alliance may so happy prove / To turn your households' rancour to true love' - Friar Lawrence, Act 2 Scene 3 - Romeo and Juliet's marriage might turn their families hatred into love

'Get these to Church o'Thursday, or never after look me in the face' - Lord Capulet, Act 3 Scene 5 - Forcing Juliet into marrying Paris so not giving her a choice, otherwise he will disown her