Romeo and Juliet Quotes

Benvolio: By my head, here comes the Capulets.
Mercutio: By my heel, I care not.

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Juliet: Romeo. Romeo. Wherefore art thou Romeo?

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Juliet: Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

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Juliet: That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet

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Juliet: Yea noise. Then Ill be brief. Oh, happy dagger, this is thy sheath; there rust and let me die.

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Juliet: O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?

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[first lines] Narrator: 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. And, so the Prince has called a tournament, to keep the battle from the city streets. Now, rival Capulets and Montagues, they try their strength to gain the royal ring.

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Benvolio: Tybalt, I do but keep the peace. Put up your sword or manage it to part these men with me.
Tybalt: What? Do you draw your sword and talk of peace? I hate the word. As I hate hell! All Montagues and thee.

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Benvolio: Good afternoon, my cousin.
Romeo: Is it so? I thought it should be night.
Benvolio: Not much past four.
Romeo: I am sad, the hours seem long.
Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?
Romeo: I lack the thing, which if I had it, would make them short.
Benvolio: I see. You're in love.

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Benvolio: Love is a harsh tyrant where he rules.
Romeo: Love is smoke, raised on a fume of sighs, a madness drenched in syrup and *choked* with rage.

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Benvolio: May I not know who it is you love?
Romeo: I love a woman.
Benvolio: That much I found unaided.
Romeo: Who loves me not.

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Juliet: What is it mother?
Lord Capulet: Juliet, you are a woman now.
Nurse: Not a woman.
Lord Capulet: Oh, she's nearly a woman.
Nurse: Nearly, but, not yet.

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Lady Capulet: Can you love the man?
Juliet: I hardly know him.
Lady Capulet: Then learn to know him at the feast tonight. Seek how you feel. Study his eyes and read the message there. See - if you can be happy with him.

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Mercutio: Gentle Romeo, we must see you dance.
Romeo: Not I, Mercutio. You have the dancing shoes and dancing feet to fill them. My soul is made of lead. It sticks me to the ground and cannot move.
Mercutio: You are a lover. Borrow cupid's wings and fly!

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Romeo: I dreamed a dream last night.
Mercutio: And so did I.
Romeo: Well, what was your's?
Mercutio: That dreamers often lie.
Romeo: In bed asleep, while they do dream things true.
Mercutio: O, then, I see Queen Mab has been with you. She is the fairies' midwife and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone on the fore-finger of an alderman and drawn with a team of little atomies athwart men's noses as they lie asleep. Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut. And in this state she gallops night by night through lovers' brains and then they dream of love. O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight. O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees. O'er ladies ' lips, who straight on kisses dream.
Romeo: Peace, peace, Mercutio! Enough. You talk of nothing.
Mercutio: 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.

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Romeo: Come. Let us brave our fears and steer our course - whatever it may prove.
Mercutio: On lusty gentlemen!

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Romeo: O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a fine jewel in a Ethiope's ear. Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! So shows the snowy dove trooping with crows, as yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
Benvolio: But, what of your love - Rosaline?
Romeo: Did my heart love till now? Forswear the sight. I never saw true beauty till this night.

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Tybalt: I'll not endure it.
Lord Capulet: You will endure it! For I say you will. Am I master here, or you? You'll make a mutiny among the guests! You will set cock-a-hoop! You'll be the man!
Tybalt: Uncle, it is a shame!
Lord Capulet: Go to, go to. You shall contrary in me! You are a princox!

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Lady Capulet: Good, my lord husband, why are you so hot?

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Romeo: If I profane with my unworthiest hand, This holy shrine: my lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand, to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
Juliet: Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much. Which mannerly devotion shows in this, for saints have hands do touch. Palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.
Romeo: Have not saints lips and holy palmers too?
Juliet: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
Romeo: O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do. They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
Juliet: But, Saints do not move their palms for prayers' sake.
Romeo: Then move not. While my prayer's effect I take. [kiss]
Romeo: Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.
Juliet: Then have my lips the sin that they have took.
Romeo: Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again. [kiss]

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Juliet: Who is that gentleman going through the door?
Nurse: His name is Romeo - and a Montague. The only son of your great enemy.
Juliet: My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown and known too late!

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Romeo: But, soft! What light beyond the window breaks? It is the east - and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief, that thou her maid are made of far more fair than she. Wait! It is my lady or is my love! O, that she knew she were! The brightness of her cheek would shame the stars, as daylight doth a lamp. And her eyes, set in heaven would give forth such light that birds would sing and think it were not night. See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek!

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Juliet: 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; You'd be yourself, if you were not called Montague. What's in a name? That which we call a rose is by any other name would smell as sweet. So Romeo would.

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Juliet: Romeo, cast off thy name and, for that name which is no part of you, take all of me!

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Juliet: Why have you come? This place death if any of my kinsmen find thee here.
Romeo: With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls. For stony limits cannot hold love out, And what love can do that dares love attempt; therefore, thy kinsmen are no stop to me.

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Romeo: Lady, by yonder moon, I swear, that tips with silver all the fruit-tree tops...
Juliet: O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in hid circled orb, Lest that your love prove likewise variable.
Romeo: What shall I swear by?
Juliet: Do not swear at all. Listen hard, are we too rash, too unadvised, too quick?
Romeo: No. For this bud of love, by summer's breath, will prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. I promise.

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Juliet: Go and Good night! And let sweet rest come to you heart and mind within my breast!
Romeo: O, will you leave me so unsatisfied?
Juliet: What satisfaction will you have to-night?
Romeo: The exchange of your love's faith for a vow for mine.
Juliet: I gave you mine before you didst request it.

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Juliet: I have forgotten why I called you back.
Romeo: Let me stand here till you remember it.
Juliet: I shall forget, to have thee still stand - remembering how I love thy company.
Romeo: And I'll still stay, to have thee still forget, forgetting any other home but this.
Juliet: Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow - that is to say good night till it be morrow.
Romeo: Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast!

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Friar Laurence: God pardon sin! Were you with Rosaline? I pray you were not playing satan's game.
Romeo: With Rosaline? I have forgot the name.

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Friar Laurence: Holy Saint Francis! What a change is here!

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