Romeo and Juliet quotes.

ACT ONE QUOTES:

• I will withdraw; but this intrusion shall Now seeming sweet, convert to bitt'rest gall.

Tybalt vows to seek revenge

• If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine

Romeo describes Juliet in religious terms

• O dear account. My life is my foe's debt.

Romeo discovers that Juliet is a Capulet

• My only love sprung from my only hate.

Juliet discovers that Romeo is a Montague

• So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows

Light and dark imagery (So shows)

• As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear

Light and dark imagery (As a)

• My mind misgives Some consequence yet hanging in the stars.

Romeo has a sense of foreboding

• Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word

The families have been frequently fighting

• Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace

The prince announces a new punishment for fighting

• Here's much to do with hate, but more with love

Romeo is opposed to the fighting

• I hate the word, as I hate Hell, all Montagues and thee

Tybalt is first presented as agressive

• I do but keep the peace

Benvolio is sensible and fearful of the law

• A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life

Theme of fate is introduced (A pair)

• death-mark'd love

Theme of fate is introduced. (Death)

• Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight. For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night

Romeo denies loving Rosaline

ACT 2 QUOTES:

• Juliet is the sun

Romeo explains how vital Juliet is to him

• Be but sworn my love and I'll no longer be a Capulet

Juliet is willing to give up her family for Romeo

• It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden, Too like the lightning

Juliet fears the sudden nature of their love

• And where the worser is predominant Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.

Romeo's fate is foreshadowed by Friar Lawrence

• For this alliance may so happy prove To turn your households' rancour to pure love.

Friar Lawrence believes the marriage may unite the families

• Now art thou sociable, now…