Romeo And Juliet Key Quotes

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

  William Shakespeare

  Romantic, Love You, Heart

  1595 Mercutio. Romeo andJuliet, act1, sc.5, l.51-2.

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• where civil blood makes civil hands unclean

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Hands, Romeo And Juliet Love

  William Shakespeare (2009). “CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Looks, Juliet

  William Shakespeare (1853). “Romeo and Juliet ...”, p.38

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• My only love sprung from my only hate.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Dream, Hate

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [142]

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• Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Rude, Boisterous

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.57, Classic Books Company

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• These violent delights have violent ends.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Romeo And Juliet Love, Delight

  1595 Friar Laurence. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.5, l.9.

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• Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Rain, Play

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 33

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• O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. - Romeo -

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Jewels, True Beauty

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [48]

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• O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love... 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
  What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Art

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 43

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• He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Wounds And Scars, Romeo And Juliet Love

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Wise, Running

  1595 Friar Laurence to Romeo. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.2, l.94.

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• Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!

  William Shakespeare

  Love, True Beauty, Torches

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [48]

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• What light through yonder window breaks?

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Romantic, Light

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 1

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• What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Flower

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 43

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• Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.

  William Shakespeare

  True Beauty, Romeo And Juliet Love, Torches

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [48]

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• If I profane with my unworthiest hand
  This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
  My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
  To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Hands, Two

  William Shakespeare (2007). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.46, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Grief, Moon

  William Shakespeare, Thomas BOWDLER (F.R.S.) (1831). “The Family Shakspeare ... By T. Bowdler ... Sixth Edition”, p.824

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• But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Science, Light

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 1

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• My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Romance, Enemy

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [142]

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• she shall scant show well that now shows best.

  William Shakespeare

  Romeo And Juliet Juliet, Shows, Wells

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.41, Classic Books Company

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• These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Fire, Romeo And Juliet Love

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.149, Classic Books Company

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• Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Long, Tardiness

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.149, Classic Books Company

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• Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

  William Shakespeare

  Compassion, Murder, Juliet

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Alexander Pope (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentick Copies, and Revised; with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added, an Essay on the Chronological Order of His Plays; an Essay Relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a Dissertation on the Three Parts of King Henry VI; an Historical Account of the English Stage; and Notes; by Edmond Malone”, p.98

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• You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead.

  William Shakespeare

  Shoes, Dancing, Soul

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.205, Classic Books Company

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• I have a soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Soul, Juliet

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Romeo and Juliet In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.38, BookCaps Study Guides

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