Romeo and Juliet Quotes

Act 1 Scene 2 (To Paris)

"My Child is yet a stranger in the world, 

She hath not seen the change of fourteen years;

Let two more summers wither in their pride, 

Ere we may think her rip to be a bride."

Act 1 Scene 5 (to Tybalt)

"Young Romeo is it?" 

"Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone, 

A bears him like a portly gentlemen;

And to say truth, Verona brags of him 

To be a virtuous and well-governed youth. 

I would not for the wealth of all this town 

Here in my house do him disparagement;

Therefore be patient, take no note of him;

It is my will, the which is thou respect, 

Show a fair presence, and put off these frowns,"

Act 3 Scene 4 (Paris)

"A Thursday let is be - a Thursday, tell her, 

She shall be married to this noble earl."

"Will you be ready? do you like this haste?" 

"For hark you, Tybalt being slain so late,"

"Therefor we'll have some half a dozen friends,

And there an end. But what say you to Thursday?" 

Act 3 Scene 5 (Juliet)

"How, will she none? doth she not give us thanks?

Is she not proud?doth she not count her blest, 

Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought 

So worthy a genetleman to be her bride? "

"Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch!

I tell thee what: get thee to church a Thursday, 

Or never after look me in the face.

Speak not, reply not, do nt answer me!"

Act 3 Scene 5 (The Nurse is trying to back up Juliet) 

Nurse: "God in heaven bless her!

You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so."

Capulet: "And why, my Lady Wisdom? Hold your tongue,

Good Prudence, smatter with your gossips, go." 

Nurse: "I speak no treason." 

Capulet: "O God-i-goden!"

Nurse: "May not one speak?"

Capulet: "Peace, you mumbling fool!

Utter your gravity o'er a gossip's bowl, 

For here we need it not"

Act 4 Scene 5 (He believe's Juliet is dead)

"Hah, let me see her. Out alas, she's cold, 

Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff:

Life and these lips have long been separated; 

Dealth lies on her like an untimely frost

Upon the sweetest flower of all the field."

"O child, O child! my soul, and not my child!

Dead art thou. Alark, my child is dead, 

And with my child my joys are buried."

Act 5 Scene 3 (when they find Romeo, Paris and Juliet dead in the Capulet's tomb)

"O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds! 

This dagger hath mistance, for lo his house

Is empty on the of Montague,"

(Capulet and Montauge ending the fued)

"O brother Montague, give me thy hand. 

This is my daughter's jointure, for no more

Can I demand" 

"As rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie, 

Poor sacrifices of our enmity!"

Act 1 Scence 3

"This is the matter. Nurse, give leave a while, 

We must talk in secret. Nurse, come back again, 

I have remembered me, thou s' hear our counsel. 

Thou knowest my daughter's of a pretty age."

"Marry, that (marry) is the very theme

I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet, 

How stands your dispositions to be married?" 

"I was your mother much upon these years

That you are now maid. Thus then in brief:

The valiant Paris seeks you for his love."

"Speak briefly, can you like of Paris' love?"

Act 3 Scene 5

(To Juliet) 

" Talk not to me, for I'll not speak a word. 

Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee." 

Act 4 Scene 5

"Alack the day, she's dead, she's dead, she's dead!"

"Accursed, unhappy, wretched, hateful day!"

Most miserble hour that e'er time saw

In lasting labour of his pilgrimage!"

"O me, this sight of dealth is as a bell

That warns my old age to a sepulchre."

Act 1 Scene 2

"But now, my Lord, what say you to my suit?"

"Younger than she are happy mothers made."

Act 3 Scene 4

"My Lord, I would that Thursday were tomorrow."

Act 5 Scene 3:

"I am slain! If thou be merciful, 

Open the tomb, lay me iwth Juliet."

Act 1 Scene 1

"Be ruled by me, forget to think of her."

Act 2 Scene 4

"Tybalt, the kinsman to old Capulet, 

Hath sent a letter to his father's house." 

(Tyblat's challenge) "Romeo will answer it"

"Nay, he will answer the letter's master, how he dares, being dared."

"Here comes Romeo, here comes Romeo."

Act 3 Scene 1

" I pray thee, good Montague, let's retire:

The day is hot, the capels are abroad, 

And if we meet we shall not scape a brawl, 

For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring," 

"By my head, here come the Capulets."

"We talk here in the public haunt of men:

Either withdraw unto some private place, 

Or reason coldly of your grievances, 

Or else depart; here all eyes gaze on us."

"O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio is dead.

That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds, 

Which too untimely here did scorn the earth."

"Here comes the furious Tybalt back again."

"Romeo, away, be gone!

The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain. 

Stand not amazed, the Prince will doom thee death 

If thou art taken. Hence be gone, away!"

"This is the truth, or let Benvolio die."

Act 1 Scene 5

"This, by his voice is a Montague. 

Fetch me my rapier, boy."

"Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe:

A villain that is hither come in spite, 

To scorn at our solemnity this night."

"Why, uncle, 'tis a shame."

Act 3 Scene 1

"Follow me close, for I will speak to them.

Gentlemen, good den, a word with one of you." 

(when Romeo enters) "Well peace be with you, sir, here comes my man."

(Romeo tries to appologise) "Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries

That thou hast done me, therefore turn and draw." 

"Thou wretched boy, that didst consort him here, 

Shalt with him here.""

Benvolio: "There lies that Tybalt." (slain by Romeo)

Act 3 Scene 1

"O calm, dishonourable, vile submission!...

...Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk?"

"Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall

find me in a grave... 

... A plague a'both your houses!"

"Help me into some house, Benvolio,

Or I shall faint. A plague a'both your houses!

They have made worms' meat of me. I have it, 

And soundly too. Your houses!"

"Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word, 

By thee, thee old Capulet, and Montague, 

Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets,...

....To wield old partisans, in hands old."

"If ever you disturb our streets again, 

Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace." 

"Benvolio, who began this bloody fray!"

"Romeo slew him, he slew Mercutio;

Who now the price of his dear blood doth owe?"

"And for that offence

 Immediately we do exile him hence.

I have intreset that your hearts' proceceeding:..

....That you shall all repent the loss of mine." 

"What misadventure is so early up, 

That calls our person from our morning rest?"

(To Friar) "Then say at once what thou dost know this."

"This letter doth make good the Friar's words, 

Their course of love, the tidings of her death;

And here he writes that he did buy a poison 

Of a poor pothecary, and therewithal

Came to this cault to die, and lie with Juliet. 

Where be these enemies? Capulet, Montague?

See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, 

That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love!

And I for winking a your discords too

Have lost a brace of kinsman. All are punished."

Act 1 Scene 3

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

Act 1 Scene 5

"My only love prung from my only hate!

Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

Prodidiours birth of love it is to me, 

That I must love a loathed enemy."

Act 2 Scene 2

"If that thy bent of love be honourable, 

Thy pur marriage, send me word tommorrow," 

"What a'clock tommorrow / Shall I send thee?"

Act 3 scene 2

"Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?...

.... My husband lives that Tybalt would've slain, 

And Tybalt dead that would have slain my husband:

All this is comfort,"

Act 3 Scene 5

"O God, I have an ill-divining soul!

Methinks I see thee now, thou art so low, 

As one dead in the bottom of a tomb."

Act 3 Scene 5

(Juliet's reaction to finding out that she must marry Paris)

"Proud can I never be of what I hate, 

But thankful even for hate that is meant love."

 "O sweet mother, cast me not away!

Delay this marriage for a month, a week, 

Or if you do not, make the bridal bed 

In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.

Act 3 Scene 5

"O Nurse, how shall this be prevented? 

My husband is on the earth, my faith in heaven;

How shall faith return again to earth, ...

...comfort me, counsel me...

...Some comfort, Nurse"

"Well, thou hast comforted me marvellous much. 

Go in, and tell my lady I am gone,

Having displaced my father, to Lawrence' cell"

Juliet has asked for help from the Nurse and her mother to stop the marriage however they have both told her to marry to Paris. Juliet is going to the Friar to seek help off him this is because he is the only person that understands what is going on between Romeo and Juliet and he is the only person that will help her. 

Act 4 Scene 1

The friar comes up with a plan he tells Juliet to take this posion that will make her appear as if she is dead for 24hours. The Friar will write to Romeo to tell him the plan. Juliet will be taken to the Capulet's tomb where she will awake in 24 hours, Romeo will arrive and take her to Mantua if he gets the letter

"Love give me strength, and strength shall help afford. / Farewell dear father."

Act 5 Scene 3

Juliet wakes up in the Capulet's tomb. 

"O comfortable Friar, where is my Lord? 

I do remember well where I should be;

And there I am. Where is my Romeo?"

When she finds him dead, she kills herself with a dagger. 

"Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger."

Act 1 Scene 5

"His name is Romeo, and a Montague, 

The only son of your great enemy."

Act 2 Scene 5

"I am a-weary, give me leave a while. 

Fie, how my bones ache!" (this is used as a comic effectbecause Juliet is forced to listen to the Nurse's illness, while she wants to listen to the news of her wedding plans.)

"I am the drudge, and toil in your delight; 

But you shall bear the burden soon at night."

Act 3 Scene 2

The Nurse is the person to tell Juliet the news about her cousin and Romeo. 

"Tybalt is gone and Romeo banished, 

Romeo that killed him, he is banished."

"There's no trust, 

No faith, no honesty in men,...

...These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old. 

Shame come to Romeo!"

"Will you speak well of him that killed your cousin?"

Act 3 Scene 5

The Nurse tries to back-up Juliet, better than her mother does.

"God in heaven bless her!

You are to blame, my Lord, to rate her so."

She tells Juliet

"I think it best you married with the county."

Act 4 Scene 5:

"Lady, lady, lady!

Alas, alas! Help, help! my lady's dead!"

Act 1 Scene 5

"Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! 

For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."

Act 2 Scene 2

" By a name

I know not how to tell thee who I am. 

My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself, 

Because it is an enemy to thee;

Had I it writen, I would tear the word."

"By the hour of nine" (Romeo replys when Juliet asks him what time shall him and the Nurse meet.)

Act 2 Scene 3

"With Rosaline, my ghostly father? no; 

I have forgot that name, and that name's woe."

"My heart's dear love is set 

On the fair daughter of rich Capulet;"

Act 3 Scene 1

"I do protest I never injured thee, 

But love thee better than thou canst devise, 

Till thou shalt know the reason of my love;

And so, good Capulet, which name I tender

As dearly as mine own, be satisfied."

Act 3 scene 1 

"Mercutio's soul

Is but a little way above our heads,"

"Either thou or I, or both, must go with him."

Act 3 Scene 3

"Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here 

Where Juliet lives,"

Act 3 Scene 5

"And trust me, love, in my eye so do you:

Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu"

Act 5 Scene 1

"Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight."

"There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, 

Doing more murder in this loathsome world, 

Than these poor compounds that thou myst not sell. 

I sell thee posion, thou hast sold me none. 

Farewell, buy food, and get thyself in flesh."

"To Juliet's grave, for there must I use thee."

Act 3 Scene 5

"Ah, dear Juliet,

Why art thou yet so fair?...

.... O true apothecary!

Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die."

Act 2 Scene 3

"Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here!

Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear, 

So soon forsaken? Young men's love then lies 

Not truely in their hearts, but in their eyes."

Act 2 Scene 6

"These violent delights have violent ends, 

And in triumph die like fire and powder, 

Which as they kiss consume." (The Friar is hoping that if he maries Romeo and Juliet it will cause peace within their family fued)

Act 2 Scene 6

"Come, come with me, and we will make short work, 

For by your leaves, you shall not stay alone

Till Holy Church incorporate two in one."

Act 3 Scene 3

"O deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!

Thy fault our law calls dealth, but the kind Prince, 

Taking thy part, hath rushed aside the law, 

And turned that black word 'death' to 'banishment'

This is dear mercy and thou seest it not."

Act 5 Scene 3

"Romeo! O, pale! who else? What, Paris too? 

And steeped in blood? Ah, what an unkind hour 

Is guily of this lamentable chance!"