Romeo and Juliet quotations Flashcards
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Two households
both alike in dignity,
Where civil blood makes
civil hands unclean.
A pair of star-cross’d lovers
take their life
Do with their death bury
their parents’ strife.
A dog of the house
of Montague moves me.
The quarrel is between
our masters and us their men.
My naked weapon is out:
quarrel, I will back thee.
Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them;
which is
a disgrace to them, if they bear it.
Part, fools!
Put up your
swords; you know not what you do.
What, art thou drawn among these
heartless hinds?
I do but keep the
peace: put up thy sword,
What, drawn, and talk
I hate the word,
As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:
A crutch, a crutch!
why call you for a sword?
Throw your mistemper’d weapons
to the ground,
Three civil brawls,
bred of an airy word,
Your lives shall pay
the forfeit of the peace.
Shuts up his windows, locks far daylight
out
And makes himself an artificial night:
Ay me! sad hours
seem long.
Why, then, O brawling love!
O loving hate!
O heavy lightness!
serious vanity!
Mis-shapen chaos
of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke,
cold fire,
sick health!
Love is a smoke raised
with the fume of sighs;
O, teach me how
I should forget to think
By giving liberty unto thine eyes;
Examine other beauties.
My child is yet
a stranger in the world;
Let two more summers wither in their pride,
Ere we may think
her ripe to be a bride.
Younger than she
are happy mothers made.