Shakespeare (1597) Romeo and Juliet: Key Quotations

Question 1

‘Thou shall not stir one foot to seek a foe’

Answer 1

Lady Montague: Act 1 Scene 1

Question 2

‘Then love-devouring death do what he dare: / \It is enough I may but call her mine.’

Answer 2

Romeo: Act 2 Scene 6

Question 3

‘I am hurt. / A plague on both your houses.’

Answer 3

Mercutio: Act 3 Scene 1

Question 4

‘And you be not, hang! Beg! Starve! Die in the streets! / for by my soul I’ll ne’er acknowledge thee’

Answer 4

Lord Capulet: Act 3 Scene 5

Question 5

‘Then I defy you, stars!’

Answer 5

Romeo: Act 5 Scene 1

Question 6

‘And lips, O you / The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss / A dateless bargain to engrossing Death’

Answer 6

Romeo: Act 5 Scene 3

Question 7

‘O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? / Deny thy father and refuse thy name.

Answer 7

Juliet: Act 2 Scene 3

Question 8

‘O happy dagger’

Answer 8

Juliet: Act 5 Scene 3

Question 9

‘Thou art a villain’

Answer 9

Tybalt: Act 3 Scene 1

Question 10

‘To strike him dead I hold not a sin’

Answer 10

Tybalt: Act 1 Scene 5

Question 11

‘Too soon marred are those so early made’

Answer 11

Lord Capulet: Act 1 Scene 2

Question 12

‘… if ye should lead her in a fool’s paradise, as they say, it were a very gross kind of behaviour, as they say; for the gentlewomen is young’

Answer 12

The Nurse: Act 2 Scene 4

Question 13

‘These violent delights have violent ends’

Answer 13

Friar Laurence: Act 2 Scene 6

Question 14

‘Compare her face with some that I shall show / And I will make thee think thy swan a crow’

Answer 14

Benvolio: Act 1 Scene 2

Question 15

‘Parting is such sweet sorry / That I shall say good night till it be morrow.’

Answer 15

Juliet: Act 2 Scene 2 (Sonnet)