English Romeo And Juliet - Quotes

Question 1

“Let us take the law of our sides; let them begin”

Answer 1

Speaker: Sampson
Audience: Gregory
Context: He wants the Montague servants to start the
fight first so that they can say they were defending themselves.

Question 2

“Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death”

Answer 2

Speaker: Tybalt
Audience: Gregory, Sampson
Context: He is provoking Benvolio to a fight here by jeering at him, implying he is not a real man until he fights him

Question 3

“If ever you disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace”

Answer 3

Speaker: Paris
Audience: The rioters, Gregory, Sampson, etc
Context: Paris declares that if they ever start a riot again, they will pay for it with their lives

Question 4

“Being one too many by my weary self, pursued my humour not pursuing his”

Answer 4

Speaker: Benvolio
Audience: Lady Capulet, Capulet
Context: Benvolio explains to Capulet that he thought romeo was avoiding him, and he explained that he was perfectly happy to leave him alone and keep to himself.

Question 5

“The all-seeing sun ne’er saw her match since first the world begun”

Answer 5

Speaker: Romeo
Audience: Benvolio
Context: Romeo declares that the sun itself has never seen anyone as beautiful as Rosaline since the world began.

Question 6

“Thou ast the prettiest babe that e’er I nursed”

Answer 6

Speaker: Nurse
Audience: Nurse, Lady Capulet
Context: After Juliet requested Nurse to stop talking, Nurse finally agreed, remarking that Juliet was the prettiest baby she ever nursed.

Question 7

“It is an honour that I dream not of”

Answer 7

Speaker: Juliet
Audience: Nurse
Context; Juliet explains that marriage is something that she doesn’t look forward too after the nurse remarked on being able to view Juliet’s marriage in the future.

Question 8

“I have a soul of lead so stakes me to the ground I cannot move.”

Answer 8

Speaker: Romeo
Audience: Mercutio, Benvolio
Context: After Mercutio states that Romeo should dance at the party, Romeo says that his soul is similar to lead, which will prevent him from enjoying the party and dancing

Question 9

“I would not for the wealth of all this town here in my house do him disparagement”

Answer 9

Speaker: Capulet
Audience: Tybalt
Context: Capulet is trying to calm down Tybalt, stating that Romeo has a well known reputation for being a gentleman and that he won’t disturb the party just for being a montague.

Question 10

“O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again!”

Answer 10

Speaker: Romeo
Audience: Juliet
Context: As a complement, Romeo states that Juliet is so sweet that she encourages crime.

Question 11

“I conjure thee by Rosaline’s bright eyes, by her high forehead and her scarlet lip…”

Answer 11

Speaker: Mercutio
Audience: Benvolio
Context: Mercutio is insulting Rosaline in an attempt to anger Romeo, so he can confront him, although he is unaware Romeo is not in love with Rosaline anymore.

Question 12

“I would not for the wealth of all this town here in my house do him disparagement”

Answer 12

Speaker: Juliet
Audience: Romeo
Context: Juliet is questioning how a name can define a person, and argues that a name has nothing to do with the qualities of a person

Question 13

“My life were better ended by their hate that death prorogued, wanting of thy love.”

Answer 13

Speaker: Romeo
Audience: Juliet
Context: Romeo declares he would rather be killed then to have to live without Juliet’s love

Question 14

“Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say good night till it be morrow.”

Answer 14

Speaker: Juliet
Audience: Romeo
Context: Juliet says that him leaving is sorrowful but not that bad as she will see him again tomorrow

Question 15

“How much salt water thrown away in waste to season love, that of it doth not taste!”

Answer 15

Speaker: Frair Lawrence
Audience: Romeo
Context: friar Lawrence is surprised that Romeo had a chance of love so fast; he is describing how he was obsessed with Rosaline, how he shed so many salty-tears for her.

Question 16

“Alas, poor Romeo! He is already dead…”

Answer 16

Speaker: Mercutio
Audience: Benvolio
Context: Mercutio is explaining that romeo is not “man”
enough to confront tybalt, as he is torn by love

Question 17

“A gentlemen, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.”

Answer 17

Speaker: Romeo
Audience: Nurse
Context: Previously, Mercutio was saying crude comments towards Nurse. When nurse asked romeo who the man was, Romeo had to explain that Mercutio loves to talk, implying that he talks of nonsense.

Question 18

“The excuse that thou dost make in this delay is longer than the tale thou dost excuse.”

Answer 18

Speaker: Juliet
Audience: Nurse
Context: Juliet is explaining that the excuse the nurse used to delay saying the news is likely longer than the news itself

Question 19

“The sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness and in the taste
confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately: long love doth so…”

Answer 19

Speaker: Friar Lawrence
Audience: Juliet and Romeo
Context: Friar Lawrence is explaining to Romeo to not act to swiftly during marriage, as this can result in unexpected consequences

Question 20

“A plague on both your houses! They have made worms’ meat of me.”

Answer 20

Speaker: Mercutio
Audience: General public, Benvolio, Romeo
Context: Mercutio insults both families, wishing they were both struck by a plaque. He demonstrates anger and shows that he believes all the fighting is useless, and that it killed him.

Question 21

“…for Mercutio’s soul is but a little way above our heads, staying for thine to keep him company.”

Answer 21

Speaker: Romeo
Audience: Benviolio, General public, Tybalt
Context: Romeo is furious, and wants to kill Tybalt. He insults Tybalt by stating that Mercutio’s soul is floating above, and that Mercutio is waiting for Tybalt to keep him company on his way to heaven, interpreting that he
will kill Tybalt.

Question 22

“His fault concludes but what the law should end, the life of Tybalt.”

Answer 22

Speaker: Montague
Audience: Prince, Lady Capulet
Context: Montague believes by Tybalt killing mercutio, his crime rightfully did justices job by killing him.

Question 23

“What storm is this that blows so contrary?”

Answer 23

Speaker: Juliet
Audience: Nurse
Context: Initially, Juliet believes that Romeo was killed by the confusing report by the Nurse. To clarify the news
Juliet asks what kind of disaster this is: has Romeo been killed, and Tybalt too?

Question 24

“Blistered be thy tongue for such a wish!”

Answer 24

Speaker: Juliet
Audience: Nurse
Context: When the nurse states that there is no honesty, trust, and faith in men, Juliet became infuriated, wishing that the nurse had sores that covered her tongue for stating such a thing.

Question 25

“Thou cut’st my head off with a golden axe and smilest upon the stroke that murders me.”

Answer 25

Speaker: Romeo
Audience: Friar Lawrence
Context: Romeo states that someone telling him he is “banished” is like someone cutting his head off with a golden axe and smiling at his Murder.

Question 26

“Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel.”

Answer 26

Speaker: Romeo
Audience: Friar Lawrence
Context: When Friar Lawrence attempts to comfort Romeo, Romeo states that he cannot talk about something that he doesn’t feel; he’s not banished, as young as him, in love with Juliet, etc.

Question 27

“For hark you, Tybalt being slain so late, it may be thought we held him carelessly, being our kinsman, if we revel much.”

Answer 27

Speaker: Capulet
Audience: Paris
Context: Because of Tybalt’s recent death, people may think that Capulet doesn’t really care about Tybalt. To circumvent this, Capulet decided to invite only a dozen people on the wedding on thursday.

Question 28

“It was the nightingale and not the lark that pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear.”

Answer 28

Speaker: Juliet
Audience: Romeo
Context: Juliet is attempting to convince Romeo not to leave, so that she can stay with him longer. She declares
that what Romeo heard was a Nightingale (A night bird), not a lark (A morning bird).

Question 29

“Peace, you mumbling fool! Utter your gravity over a gossip’s bowl, for here we need it not.”

Answer 29

Speaker: Capulet
Audience: Nurse, Lady Capulet
Context: After the Nurse stated that it was wrong of Capulet to berate his daughter like that, he angrily
backfired, telling the Nurse to shut up, and to save her mumbling for her gossiping buddies.

Question 30

“Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain.”

Answer 30

Speaker: Juliet
Audience: N/A, Juliet is talking to herself
Context: After the Nurse advises Juliet to marry Paris, Juliet declares that her, and the nurses heart will be separated.

Question 31

“…each part, depriv’d of supple government, shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death…”

Answer 31

Speaker: Friar Lawrence
Audience: Juliet
Context: Friar Lawrence is explaining to Juliet, that taking this potion, she will appear like death: cold, shall, stiff and dark

Question 32

“My heart is wondrous light, since the same wayward girl is so reclaim’d.”

Answer 32

Speaker: Capulet
Audience: Lady Capulet
Context: Unaware that Juliet is acting, Capulet is happy of Juliet’s obedience and the fact that she has been taken back, and will be married

Question 33

“My dismal scene I needs must act alone.”

Answer 33

Speaker: Julidet
Audience: No one, Juliet is talking to herself
Context: Juliet states that she has no other choice but to make her own decisions and take her life into her own
hands.

Question 34

“I will die, and leave him all; life, living, all is Death’s.”

Answer 34

Speaker: Capulet
Audience: Friar Lawrence, Paris, Musicians
Context: Capulet explains that everything, life and wealth belongs to death; he explains death consumes all at the end.

Question 35

“My poverty but not my will consents.”

Answer 35

Speaker: Apothecary
Audience: Romeo
Context: Apothecary, just before selling Romeo the potion, declares that his will to sell the potion doesn’t
consent, but his poverty.

Question 36

“I could not send it – here it is again – nor get a messenger to bring it thee, so fearful were they of infection.”

Answer 36

Speaker: Friar John
Audience: Friar Lawrence
Context: Friar John explains to Friar Lawrence that he was unable to send Romeo the letter as he had been shut up in a quarantined house because of a disease epidemic.

Question 37

“By heaven, I love thee better than myself, for I come hither arm’d against myself.”

Answer 37

Speaker: Romeo
Audience: Paris
Context: Romeo, in a strucken state of sadness, states that he loves Paris more than himself, and brought himself here to kill himself after Paris threatens him.

Question 38

“Shall I believe that unsubstantial Death is amorous, and that the lean abhorred monster keeps thee here in dark to be his paramour?”

Answer 38

Speaker: Romeo
Audience: To Juliet, who is deceased
Context: Because of Juliet’s extreme beauty Romeo believes that death is in love with Juliet, and has kept her there to be his mistress.

Question 39

“…haply some poison yet doth hang on them to make me die with a restorative.”

Answer 39

Speaker: Juliet
Audience: No one, talking to herself
Context: After seeing Romeo’s deceased body, Juliet hopes there is still some poison on Romeo’s lips, enough to make her die

Question 40

“Oh happy dagger, this is thy sheath.”

Answer 40

Context: Juliet, after attempting to kill herself with poison, finds the discovery of a dagger which
she plunges into her chest to kill herself.