Romeo & Juliet quotes

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Romeo

"O brawling love, O loving hate"

"I have lost myself... This is not romeo"

"Under love's heavy burden do I sink"

"O I am fortune's fool"

"Then I defy you, stars!"

"Juliet is the sun"

"Bright angel"

"The brightness of those cheeks would shame those stars"

"Villan am I none"

"O sweet Juliet, thy beauty hath made me effeminate"

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Juliet

"Madam, I am here"

"Sweet, sweet, sweet nurse"

"You kiss by the book"

"I have bought a mansion of a love, but have not possessed it"

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep"

"O swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon"

"It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, too like... lightning"

"My only love sprung from my only hate"

"O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face"

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Benvolio

"Part fools! Put up your swords, you know not what you do"

"I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword or manage it to part these men with me"

"Examine other beauties"

"Compare her face with some that I shall show, and I will make thee think thy swan a crow"

"I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire... these hot days is the mad blood stirring" 

"Withdraw to some private place... or reason coldly of your grievances"

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Tybalt

"Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon they death"

"Peace? I hate the word, as I hate well, all Montagues, and thee"

"Now by the stock and honour of my kin to strike him dead I hold it not a sin"

"This intrusion, now seeming sweet, will convert to bitterest gall"

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

"Thou art a villain"

Benvolio: "Furious Tybalt"

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Lord Capulet

"Give me my long sword, ho!"

"My child is yet stranger in the world"

"She's the hopeful lady of my earth"

"Within her scope of choice lies my consent"

"Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch"

"My fingers itch"

"O brother montague, give me thy hand"

"Hang, beg, starve, die in the streets"

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Lady Capulet

"Nurse, give leave a while... Nurse comes back again"

"I was your mother much upon these years"

"Read O'er the volume of young Paris' face, and find delight writ there with beauty's pen"

"So shall you share all that he doth possess"

"I would the fool were married to her grave"

"Not till Thursday, there is time enough"

"Talk not to me, for I'll speak a word. Do what thou wilt, for I have done with thee"

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Nurse

"What, lamb! What ladybird!"

"Bigger women grow by men"

"Though his face be better than any mans"

"You shall bear the burden soon at night"

"I think it best you married with the county. Oh, he's lovely gentleman. Romeo's a dishclout to him"

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Friar Lawrence

"That's my good son"

"Young men's love then lies truly in their hearts but in their eyes"

"This alliance may so happy prove to turn your household's rancour to pure love"

"Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast"

"These violent delights have violent ends"

"Art thou a man? Thy tears are womanish"

"There, art thou happy... there art thou happy... there art thou happy?

"I dare no longer stay"

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Mercutio

"You are a lover, borrow Cupid's wings"

"If love can be rough with you, be rough with love"

"Dreamers often lie"

"Now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo"

"Ask me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man"

"A plague a'both your houses!"

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Prince & Paris

Prince

"If ever you shall disturb our streets again, Your lives shall pay the forfeit of peace"

"What a scrouge is laid upon your hate that heaven finds a means to kill your joys with love"

"All are punish'd"

Paris

"Younger than her are happy mothers made"

"My lord, I would that Thursday were tommorow"

"Happily met, my lady and my wife"

"Thy face is mine"

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