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Ro & Ju - Quotes
Quotes from 'Romeo & Juliet' by William Shakespeare
(Prologue) From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair | of star-crossed lovers take their lives |
(Prologue) Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Doth with | their death bury their parents strife. |
(Act 1 - Prince Escalus) If ever you disturb our streets again Your lives | shall pay the forfeit of the peace. |
(Act 1. Juliet to parents)I'll look to like if looking liking move But | no more deep will I endart mine eyes |
(Act 1. Romeo) Did my heart love till now, forswear it sight For I | ne'er saw true beauty till this night |
(Act 1. Tybalt) Now by the stock and honour of my kin To strike | him dead I hold it not a sin |
(Act 1. Romeo) O dear account, my life | is in my foes debt |
(Act 1. Juliet) My only love sprung from my only hate Too early | seen unknown and known too late |
(Act 2. Juliet) 'What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any | other word would smell as sweet.' |
(Act 2. Friar Laurence) 'For this alliance may so happy prove, To turn | your household's rancour to pure love.' |
(Act 2. Mercutio) 'Now art thou sociable, now | art thou Romeo.' |
(Act 2. Nurse) 'Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence's cell. There | stays a husband to make you a wife.' |
(Act 2. Friar Laurence) 'Therefore love moderately. Long | love doth so' |
(Act 3. Mercutio to Benvolio) '… Thy head is as full of quarrels as | an egg is full of meat…' |
(Act 3. Tybalt) 'thou | art a villain.' |
(Act 3. Tybalt to Mercutio) 'Will you pluck your sword out | of his pilcher by the ears?' |
(Act 3. Romeo) 'Gentle Mercutio, put | thy rapier up.' |
(Act 3. Romeo) 'Gentlemen, for shame | forbear this outrage' |
(Act 3. Mercutio) 'Why the devil came you between us? | I was hurt under your arm' |
(Act 3. Benvolio) 'O Romeo, Romeo, brave | Mercutio is dead!' |
(Act 3. Romeo) 'Now, Tybalt, take the 'villain' back again … Either | thou, or I, or both, must go with him.'' |
(Act 3. Benvolio) 'Romeo, away, be gone! … The Prince | will doom thee death, If thou art taken. Hence, be gone, away!' |
(Act 3. Lady Capulet) 'I beg for justice, which thou, Prince, must give. Romeo | slew Tybalt; Romeo must not live' |
'(Act 3. Prince) And for that offence Immediately we do exile him hence… I will be deaf to | pleading and excuses. Nor tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses. Therefore use none. Let Romeo hence in haste, Else, when he is found, that hour is his last' (Prince) |
(Act 3. Juliet) 'My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain' And Tybalt's | dead, that would have slain my husband. All this is comfort.' |
(Act 3. Friar Laurence )'get thee to thy love… Ascend her chamber… and comfort her | Pass to Mantua… …reconcile your friends, Beg pardon of the Prince' |
(Act 3. Juliet) 'I'll to the friar, to know his remedy. If all | else fail, myself have power to die.' |
(Act 4. Friar Laurence) 'Take thou this vial and this distilling liquor For no pulse shall | keep his native progress but surcease... appear like death' And he and I will watch thy waking' |
(Act 4. Juliet) 'What if... what if... | how if... shall I not |
(Act 5. Apothecary) 'Put this in any liquid thing you will | and drink if off It would dispatch you straight |
(Act 5. Romeo) 'Come cordial to Juliet's grave For | there I must use thee |
(Act 5. Romeo) 'Death that hath sucked the honey of thy breath Hath | had no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou art not conquered |
(Act 5. Romeo) 'O true apothecary! Thy drugs | are quick. Thus with a kiss I die |
(Act 5. Juliet) 'O happy dagger, this is thy | sheath! There rust, and let me die' |
(Act 5. Prince) 'For never was a story of more | woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo' |