Romeo Juliet Quotes

• 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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• 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. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Blood, Hands

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Edward Capell, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.5

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• You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.

  William Shakespeare

  Wings, Romeo And Juliet Love, Lovers

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.56, Classic Books Company

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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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• 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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• Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

  William Shakespeare

  Romeo And Juliet Love, Thumbs, Insult

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. [50]

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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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• 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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• Mercutio: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love Is, Romeo And Juliet Love, Romeo And Juliet Romeo

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.87, Callisto Media Inc

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• 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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• 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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• Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Dream, Book

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 156

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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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• 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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• Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Romeo And Juliet Love, Lips

  William Shakespeare (2017). “Romeo and Juliet (English Russian illustrated edition): Ромео и Джульетта (английская русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.67, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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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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• This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end.

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Black, Woe

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.303

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• One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Fire, Burning

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.36, Classic Books Company

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• Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Heart, Eye

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.116, Classic Books Company

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• What sadness lengthens Romeo’s hours?

  William Shakespeare

  Sadness, Romeo And Juliet Love, Hours

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.20, Classic Books Company

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• Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

  William Shakespeare, James N. Loehlin (2002). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.98, Cambridge University Press

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• He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.

  William Shakespeare

  Treasure, Forget, Juliet

  William Shakespeare (2012). “3 by Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet and Richard III”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Sleep, Eye

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Plays”, p.37

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• Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Want, Juliet

  William Shakespeare (1829). “Dramatic Works: Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone”, p.780

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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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