Romeo And Juliet - Romeo Quotes Flashcards
“One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun
Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun.”
Act 1, Scene 2 - lines 93 to 94
Romeo is lamenting on how Rosaline doesn’t love him.
O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!”
Act 1 , Scene 5 - line 42
Romeo sees Juliet for the first time - he says that she teaches the torches to be bright, as she is that “bright” (beautiful.)
Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!
For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night
Act 1 , Scene 5 - lines 51 to 52
Romeo thinks that he hasn’t loved before - he sees Juliet, and his knees go all wobbly.
“.”
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,
As yonder lady o’er her fellow shows.”
Act 1, Scene 5 - lines 47 to 48
After seeing Juliet, he thinks that she is like seeing a dove in a crowd of crows. This also harks back to what Benvolio said to him, that Rosaline will seem like a crow to other women.
“It is the east and Juliet is the sun.”
Act 2, Scene 2 - line 3
Romeo says that if Juliet was the sky, she would be the sun.
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!
ct 2, Scene 2 - lines 23 to 25
Romeo says that he wishes he was one of Juliet’s gloves, so he could touch her cheek.
This day’s black fate on more days doth depend.
Thus but begins the woe others must end.”
AND!
“Oh, I am a fortune’s fool.”
Act 3, Scene 1 - lines 115 to 116
Romeo feels that the death of Mercutio will bring bad days.
And he is right - he kills Tybalt about 11 lines later.
And then he is banished.
And then Juliet is forced to marry Paris.
And then… you get the idea.
Act 3, Scene 3 - lines 29 to 33
As Romeo is banished, he feels that everyone will see Juliet, apart from him.
Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here,
Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog
And little mouse, every unworthy thing,
Live here in heaven and may look on her.
But Romeo may not.”
I dreamt my lady came and found me dead -
Strange dream,that gives a dead man leave to think!”
Act 5, Scene 1 - lines 7 to 8
Romeo has a nightmare that Juliet finds him dead. How convenient, as Shakespeare uses foreshadowing to make this effective.
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death! Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide!
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark!
Here’s to my love!”
Act 5, Scene 3 - lines 114 to 119
Romeo basically says - This kiss will seal my fate. Come, poison, guide me to death. You desperate sailor, let’s crash this world-weary boat into the rocks.
“Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like a thorn”
Romeo is connotating love with violent and painful terms, juxtaposing the whole idea of love being tender and caring. He uses a rhetorical question to ask his own dreamy conscience but ultimately he is faced with the merciless reality of love.
“The game was ne’er so fair, and I am done”
Romeo already feels conscious about going to the feast at the Capulets, its almost as if fate has already given him a warning to not go, so he says lets quit while they have the chance and leave.
“Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars”
Another reference to the power of fate and destiny linked to the pattern of the stars spoken by Romeo, and also multiple times throughout the play emphasising their serious beliefs in religion. He again has a feeling of a ‘fearful date’ that can only end in tragedy and thus a consequence.
“By some vile forefit of untimely death”
Romeo’s assumptions are ironically and almost scarily accurate to what will unfold later in the play, the power of fate and God is extremely important in deciding the lovers destiny which is shown very early in the play hinting to the audience of a death/deaths.
“For i ne’er saw true beauty till this night”
Romeo has completely forgotten about his love for Rosaline as he has seen, almost like a child, a newer and in this case more glorious girl to lay his eyes upon. His language is very poetic as he conveys the lightness of the world with Juliets beauty to show his feelings.
