Romeo and Juliet Important Quotes in Shakespearean Language

Act I
1. Speak briefly, can you like of Paris’ love?
Lady Capulet to Juliet

2. I’ll look to like, if looking liking move;

But no more deep will I endart mine eye
Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.
Juliet to Lady Capulet

3. Is love a tender thing? It is too rough,

Too rude, too boist’rous, and it pricks like thorn.
Romeo to Mercutio

4. If love be rough with you, be rough with love.

Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.
Mercutio to Romeo

5. O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you.

She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate stone
On the forefinger of an alderman
Mercutio to Romeo

6. Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe,

A villain, that is hither come in spite
To scorn at our solemnity this night.
Tybalt to Capulet

7. O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do!

They pray; grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
Romeo to Juliet

8. You kiss by th’ book.

Juliet to Romeo

9. My only love, sprung from my only hate!

Juliet to Nurse (to herself, actually, the nurse just hears it.. )

Act II
1. But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon...
Romeo to himself

2. Deny thy father and refuse thy name;

Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet
Juliet to herself

3. By a name
I know not how to tell thee who I am.
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My name, dead saint, is hateful to myself

Because it is an enemy of thee.
Romeo to Juliet

4. O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon,

That monthly changes in her circle orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
Juliet to Romeo

5. O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?

Romeo to Juliet

6. Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow

That I shall say good night it be morrow.
Juliet to Romeo

7. These violent delights have violent ends...

Friar Lawrence to Romeo

Act III
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;
Romeo to Tybalt

2. I am hurt.
A plague a both houses! I am sped.
Mercutio to Romeo and Benvolio

3. O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio is dead!

That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds,
Which too untimely here did scorn the earth.
Benvolio to Romeo

4. Ah, weraday! He’s dead, he’s dead, he’s dead!

We are undone, lady, we are undone!
Nurse to Juliet

5. Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished;

Romeo that killed him, he is banishèd.
Nurse to Juliet

6. My lord, I would that Thursday were tomorrow.

Paris to Capulet

7. Art thou gone so, love-lord, ay husband-friend?

I must hear from thee every day in the hour,
For in a minute there are many days.
Juliet to Romeo

8. Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low,

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As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.

Juliet to Romeo

9. Indeed I never shall be satisfied

With Romeo till I behold him – dead –
Is my poor heart so for a kinsman vexed.
Juliet to Lady Capulet

10. Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch!

I tell thee what – get thee to church a Thursday
Or never after look me in the face.
Capulet to Juliet

Act IV
1. Happily met, my lady and my wife!
Paris to Juliet

2. What must be shall be.

Juliet to Paris

3. Love give me strength, and strength shall help

afford.
Farewell, dead father.
Juliet to Friar Lawrence

4. O, look! Methinks I see my cousin’s ghost

Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body
Upon a rapier’s point. Stay, Tybalt, stay!
Romeo, Romeo, Romeo, I drink to thee.
Juliet to herself

5. Alas, alas! Help, help! My lady’s dead!

Nurse to everyone in the Capulets’ house

Act V
1. Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interred.
Romeo to Paris (who’s actually dead.. and they say Dobri’s crazy..)

2. Here’s to my love! O true apothecary!

Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.
Romeo to himself (and a guy in a different town... talking about telepathy)

3. O comfortable friar! Where is my lord?

I do remember well where I shoul be,
And there I am. Where is my Romeo?
Juliet to Friar

4. Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger!

This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.
Juliet to herself
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5. For never was a story of more woe

Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
Prince to Capulet and Montague