Romeo and Juliet

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• From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
  A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life

  Prologue, spoken by ChorusIn context

  • Love

• No sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir; but I bite my thumb, sir.

  Act I, Scene I, spoken by SampsonIn context

  • Comedy

• Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
  O anything, of nothing first create!
  O heavy lightness! serious vanity!
  Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
  Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!

  Act I, Scene I, spoken by RomeoIn context

  • Love

• Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs;
  Being purg’d, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes;
  Being vex’d, a sea nourish’d with lovers’ tears:
  What is it else? A madness most discreet,
  A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.

  Act I, Scene I, spoken by RomeoIn context

  • Love

• 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 fore-finger of an alderman

  Act I, Scene IV, spoken by MercutioIn context

  • Sleep

• True, I talk of dreams,
  Which are the children of an idle brain,
  Begot of nothing but vain fantasy

  Act I, Scene IV, spoken by MercutioIn context

  • Sleep

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

  Act I, Scene V, spoken by RomeoIn context

  • Beauty
  • Love

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

  Act I, Scene V, spoken by RomeoIn context

  • Beauty
  • Love

• He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

  Act II, Scene II, spoken by RomeoIn context

  • Experience

• O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
  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.

  Act II, Scene II, spoken by JulietIn context

  • Love

• What’s in a name? That which we call a rose,
  By any other name would smell as sweet.

  Act II, scene ii.In context

• With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls,
  For stony limits cannot hold love out,
  And what love can do, that dares love attempt

  Act II, Scene II, spoken by RomeoIn context

  • Love

• At lovers’ perjuries,
  They say Jove laughs.

  Act II, Scene II, spoken by JulietIn context

  • Love
  • Truth & Lies

• It is too rash, too unadvis’d, too sudden,
  Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
  Ere one can say “It lightens.”

  Act II, Scene II, spoken by JulietIn context

  • Love

• My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
  My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
  The more I have, for both are infinite.

  Act II, Scene II, spoken by JulietIn context

  • Love

• Parting is such sweet sorrow.

  Juliet, l. 185In context

• Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.

  Friar Laurence, to Romeo, l. 94In context

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

  Act II, Scene VI, spoken by Friar LawrenceIn context

  • Love

• A plague o’ both your houses.

  Act III, Scene I, spoken by MercutioIn context

  • Enemies

• Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

  Act III, Scene I, spoken by PrinceIn context

  • Forgiveness
  • Justice

• Come gentle night, come loving black-brow’d night,
  Give me my Romeo, and when I shall die,
  Take him and cut him out in little stars,
  And he will make the face of heaven so fine
  That all the world will be in love with night,
  And pay no worship to the garish sun.

  Act III, Scene II, spoken by JulietIn context

  • Love

• Death lies on her like an untimely frost
  Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

  Act IV, Scene V, spoken by CapuletIn context

  • Life & Death

• There is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls,
  Doing more murder in this loathsome world
  Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
  I sell thee poison, thou hast sold me none.

  Act V, Scene I, spoken by RomeoIn context

  • Money

• Eyes, look your last.
  Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, O you
  The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
  A dateless bargain to engrossing death.

  Act V, Scene III, spoken by RomeoIn context

  • Life & Death
  • Love

• For never was a story of more woe
  Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

  Act V, Scene III, spoken by PrinceIn context

  • Love

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