Romeo and Juliet Quotes Flashcards
“Draw if you be men”
Sampson- during opening fight scene
“Put up your swords- you know not what you do”
Benvolio - during opening fight scene
“heartless hinds”
Tybalt - opening scene
“mistempered weapons”
Prince - opening scene
“O brawling love! o love hate!”
Romeo to benvolio
“A right fair mark”
Benvolio to Romeo- about Rosaline
“woo her gentle Paris”
Lord Capulet- arranging juliet’s marriage
“no less? nay, bigger. women grow by men”
Nurse
“i’ll look to like of looking liking move”
Juliet
“Love… pricks like thorn”
Romeo
“snowy dove” “did my heart love til now?”
Romeo- when he first sees Juliet
“Holy shrine, two blushing pilgrims”
Romeo- religious and pure connotations
“good pilgrim” “saints do not move though grant for prayers sake”
Juliet
“If he be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed”
Juliet
“I that she were an open star and thou a popperin pear”
Mercurio- dehumanising/sexist/metonymic
“be but sworn my love and i’ll no longer be a Capulet”
Juliet
“Bright angel” “ Juliet is the sun”
Romeo- celestial imagery
“o swear not by the moon!” “what satisfaction canst thou have tonight”
Juliet
“now he is for the numbers that petrarch flowed in”
Mercurio
“fie, how my bones ache!”
Nurse
“A plague on both your houses”
Mercutio
“thy beauty hath made me effeminate” “ and in my temper soften’d valours steel! “
Romeo
“O, I am fortunes fool!”
Romeo
“Bring in cloudy night immediately”
Juliet- during her epithelium
“O, what a beast I was to chide at him!”
Juliet- respects her husband as the King of her entire world
“I must be fine and live or stay and die”
Romeo
“hang thee young baggage!”
Lord Capulet- as juliet has refused to marry paris
“If all else fails, myself have power to die”
Juliet
“how fares my juliet?” “ I defy you stars!”
Romeo
“o happy dagger” “this is thy sheath”
Juliet- masculine death as she used a masculine weapon
“poor sacrifices of our enmity”
Lord Capulet
“for never was a story of more woe than this of juliet and her romeo “
Prince- final line of the play/sort of links back to the prologue
