Romeo and Juliet - Key Quotes Flashcards
“O brawling love. O loving hate”
Romeo
“Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast”
Friar Lawrence
“a pair of star-crossed lovers”
Prologue
“Verona brags of him to be a virtuous and well-governed youth”
Capulet
“I defy you, stars!”
Romeo
“We are born to die”
Capulet
“Thy face is mine, and thou hast slandered it”
Paris
“A plague a’ both your houses”
Mercutio
“These violent delights have violent ends”
Friar Lawrence
“She doth teach the torches to burn bright”
Romeo
“My grave is like to be my wedding bed”
Juliet
“Juliet is the sun”
Romeo
“Take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine”
Juliet
“My love is deep; the more I give to thee the more I have, for both are infinite”
Juliet
“If that thy bent of love be honourable, thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow”
Juliet
“And death not Romeo take my maidenhead”
Juliet
“Death has sucked the honey from your breath but it has not yet ruined your beauty”
Romeo
“My only love, sprung from my only hate”
Juliet
“‘Under love’s heavy burden do I sink’”
Romeo
“O I am fortune’s fool”
Romeo
“He shall not make me there a joyful bride”
Juliet
“Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch!… Speak not. Reply not. Do not answer me.
My fingers itch”
Capulet
“I would the fool were married to her grave”
Lady Capulet
“O calm dishonourable, vile submission!”
Mercutio
“Young men’s love lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”
Friar Lawrence
“But passion lends them power”
Chorus
“hang, beg, starve, die in the streets… I’ll ne’er acknowledge thee”
Capulet
“Peace. I hate the word as I hate hell”
Tybalt
“You are to blame”
Nurse
“O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face.”
Juliet
“Give me my Romeo”
Juliet
