Romeo and Juliet Quotes

Question 1

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other word would smell as sweet.

Answer 1

Juliet

Question 2

O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?

Answer 2

Juliet

Question 3

A plague o’ both your houses!

They have made worms’ meat of me!

Answer 3

Mercutio

Question 4

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?

It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

Answer 4

Romeo

Question 5

A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.

Answer 5

Choir

Question 6

Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow,

That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

Answer 6

Juliet

Question 7

See how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!

Answer 7

Romeo

Question 8

Thus with a kiss I die.

Answer 8

Romeo

Question 9

O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright.
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear.

Answer 9

Romeo

Question 10

O happy dagger!

Answer 10

Juliet

Question 11

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.

Answer 11

Juliet

Question 12

A fool’s paradise.

Answer 12

Nurse

Question 13

How fares my Juliet? that I ask again;

For nothing can be ill, if she be well.

Answer 13

Romeo

Question 14

This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath,

May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

Answer 14

Juliet

Question 15

an hour before the worshipp’d sun

Peered forth the golden window of the east.

Answer 15

Benvolio

Question 16

. . . the weakest goes to the wall.

Answer 16

Sampson

Question 17

As is the bud bit with an envious worm
Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air,
Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.

Answer 17

Romeo’s father

Question 18

He that is strucken blind cannot forget

The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.

Answer 18

Benvolio

Question 19

That book in many’s eyes doth share the glory

That in gold clasps locks in the golden story.

Answer 19

Juliet’s mother

Question 20

For I am proverb’d with a grandsire phrase.

I’ll be a candle-holder, and look on.

Answer 20

Romeo

Question 21

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,
Drawn with a team of little atomies
Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep.

Answer 21

Mercutio

Question 22

Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,

Time out o’ mind the fairies’ coachmakers.

Answer 22

Mercutio

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Mercutio

Question 24

For you and I are past our dancing days.

Answer 24

Capulet

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Romeo

Question 26

If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

Answer 26

Romeo

Question 27

I tell you, he that can lay hold of her | Shall have the chinks.

Answer 27

Nurse

Question 28

My only love sprung from my only hate! | Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

Answer 28

Juliet

Question 29

Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, | When King Cophetua loved the beggar maid!

Answer 29

Mercutio

Question 30

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

Answer 30

Romeo

Question 31

See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek!

Answer 31

Romeo

Question 32

. . . stony limits cannot hold love out, | And what love can do, that dares love attempt.

Answer 32

Romeo

Question 33

Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye | Than twenty of their swords!

Answer 33

Romeo

Question 34

. . . At lovers’ perjuries, They say, | Jove laughs.

Answer 34

Juliet

Question 35

. . . swear by thy gracious self, | Which is The god of my idolatry.

Answer 35

Juliet

Question 36

How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night, | Like softest music to attending ears!

Answer 36

Romeo

Question 37

Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, | And where care lodges, sleep will never lie

Answer 37

Friar Lawrence

Question 38

Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears.

Answer 38

Friar Lawrence

Question 39

Stabbed with a white wench’s black eye.

Answer 39

Mercutio

Question 40

O, he is the courageous captain of compliments.

Answer 40

Mercutio

Question 41

One, two, and the third in your bosom.

Answer 41

Mercutio

Question 42

flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

Answer 42

Mercutio

Question 43

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

Answer 43

Romeo

Question 44

My man ’s as true as steel.

Answer 44

Romeo

Question 45

Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; | Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Answer 45

Friar Lawrence

Question 46

These violent delights have violent ends.

Answer 46

Friar Lawrence

Question 47

Villain and he be many miles asunder.

Answer 47

Juliet

Question 48

Thank me no thankings, nor, proud me no prouds.

Answer 48

Juliet's Father

Question 49

It is the lark that sings so out of tune, | Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.

Answer 49

Juliet

Question 50

Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day | Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.

Answer 50

Romeo

Question 51

It was the nightingale, and not the lark, | That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear

Answer 51

Juliet

Question 52

The damned use that word in hell.

Answer 52

Romeo

Question 53

Thou cutt’st my head off with a golden axe.

Answer 53

Romeo

Question 54

thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat.

Answer 54

Mercutio

Question 55

make it a word and a blow

Answer 55

Mercutio

Question 56

Here comes the lady! O, so light a foot | Will ne’er wear out the everlasting flint

Answer 56

Friar Lawrence

Question 57

I do remember an apothecary,— And hereabouts he dwells.

Answer 57

Romeo

Question 58

Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Here's drink—I drink to thee.

Answer 58

Juliet

Question 59

For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.

Answer 59

Benvolio

Question 60

Adversity’s sweet milk, philosophy.

Answer 60

Friar Lawrence