Quotes
Quote 1: "...Throw your mistemper'd weapons to the ground
And hear the sentence of your moved prince.
Three civil brawls bred of an airy word
By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,
Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets
And made Verona's ancient citizens
Cast by their grave-beseeming ornaments
To wield old partisans, in hands as old,
Canker'd with peace, to part your canker'd hate.
If ever you disturb our streets again
Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace..." Act 1, Scene 1, lines 86-96
Quote 2: "One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun/ Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun." Act 1, Scene 2, lines 94-95
Quote 3: "...Some consequence yet hanging in the stars/ Shall bitterly begin his fearful date/ With this night's revels, and expire the term/ Of a despised life clos'd in my breast/ By some vile forfeit of untimely death." Act 1, Scene 4, lines 107-111
Quote 4: "Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!/ For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night." Act 1, Scene 5, lines 53-54
Quote 5: "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 2, Scene 2, lines 33-6
Quote 6: "'Tis but thy name that is my enemy:
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? It is nor hand nor foot
Nor arm nor face nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O be some other name.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet." Act 2, Scene 2, lines 38-44
Quote 7: "These violent delights have violent ends/ And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,/ Which as they kiss consume." Act 2, Scene 5, lines 9-11
Quote 8: "A plague o' both your houses!" Act 3, Scene 1, line 90
Quote 9: "This day's black fate on more days doth depend:/ This but begins the woe others must end." Act 3, Scene 1, lines 118-119
Quote 10: "Give me my Romeo; and when he 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.
O, I have bought the mansion of a love
But not possess'd it, and though I am sold,
Not yet enjoy'd." Act 3, Scene 2, lines 21-28
Quote 11: "'Romeo is banished,/ There is no end, no limit, measure, bound,/ In that word's death. No words can that woe sound." Act 3, Scene 2, lines 124-126
Quote 12: "'Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here/ Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog/ And little mouse, every unworthy thing,/ Live here in heaven and may look on her,/ But Romeo may not." Act 3, Scene 3, lines 29-33
Quote 13: "Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low,/ As one dead in the bottom of a tomb." Act 3, Scene 5, lines 55-56
Quote 14: "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." Act 3, Scene 5, lines 198-203
Quote 15: "Or bid me go into a new-made grave,
And hide me with a dead man in his shroud -
Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble -
And I will do it without fear or doubt,
To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love." Act 4, Scene 1, lines 84-88
Quote 16: "O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day!
Most lamentable day. Most woeful day
That ever, ever I did yet behold!
O day, O day, O day! O hateful day!
Never was seen so black a day as this.
O woeful day! O woeful day!" Act 4, Scene 5, lines 49-54
Quote 17: "I dreamt my lady came and found me dead..." Act 5, Scene 1, line 6
Quote 18: "Then I defy you, stars!" Act 5, Scene 1, line 24
Quote 19: "O my love, my wife!/ Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath/ Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty." Act 5, Scene 3, lines 91-93
Quote 20: "A greater power than we can contradict/ Hath thwarted our intents." Act 5, Scene 3, lines 153-154
Quote 21: "For never was a story of more woe/ Than this of Juliet and her Romeo." Act 5, Scene 3, lines 309-310
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