Romeo And Juliet Play Quotes

• Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

  William Shakespeare

  Futility Of Life, Play, Life And Death

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, May, Courtesy

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.257, Wordsworth Editions

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• Seek happy nights to happy days.W

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Happy Day

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• you saw her fair, none else being by,
  Herself pois'd with herself in either eye;
  But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd
  Your lady's love against some other maid
  That I will show you shining at this feast,
  And she shall scant show well that now seems best.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Shining, Maids

  William Shakespeare (1793). “King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet”, p.354

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• With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out

  William Shakespeare

  Wall, Love You, Light

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 66

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• Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.

  William Shakespeare

  Courtesy

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 4, l. [63]

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• Look, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east! Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tip-toe on the misty mountain-tops.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Clouds, Mountain

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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• Is there no pity sitting in the clouds That sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me not away! Delay this marriage for a month, a week, Or if you do not, make the bridal bed In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Sweet, Lying

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.186

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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, 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, Drawn with a team of little atomi Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Queens, Lying, Team

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 4, l. 53

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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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• I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

  William Shakespeare

  Gone, Juliet, Dies

  1595 Romeo to Juliet. Romeo andJuliet, act 3, sc.5, l.9-11.

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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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• 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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• 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, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick and green And none but fools do wear it; cast it off. It is my lady, O, it is my love! Oh, that she knew she were!

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Grief, Moon

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 10

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• The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Eye, Night

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.812

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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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• How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Juliet, Breaths

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.816

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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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• He that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail.

  William Shakespeare

  Juliet, Sail, Courses

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.68, Classic Books Company

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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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• One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.

  William Shakespeare

  Romeo And Juliet Love, World, Saws

  William Shakespeare (2008). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.52, Barron's Educational Series

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• Benvolio- "By my head, here come the Capulets." Mercutio- "By my heel, I care not.

  William Shakespeare

  Care, Juliet, Tybalt

  William Shakespeare (2012). “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”, p.60, Hackett Publishing

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• The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo

  William Shakespeare

  Law, World, Juliet

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. 72

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