THEME: Love Flashcards
ACT 1 SCENE 1
Romeo: “Love is a smoke…”
“…made from the fume of sighs”
ACT 1 SCENE 1
Romeo [about Rosaline]: “She will not stay the siege of loving terms…”
“…Nor bide th’encounter of assailing eyes, nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold”
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Romeo [about love] “Feather of —-, bright —-, —– fire, —– —-“
“Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health”
ACT 1 SCENE 1
Romeo [about the feud between the Cs and Ms]: “Here’s much to do with hate…”
“… but more with love”
ACT 1 SCENE 2
Benvolio [to Romeo, about Rosaline]: “Compare her face with some that I will show…”
“… and I will make thee think thy swan a crow”
ACT 1 SCENE 2
Romeo [about Rosaline]: “One fairer than my love! The all-seeing…”
“… sun never saw her match since first the world begun”
ACT 1 SCENE 4
Romeo: “Is love a tender thing?…”
“…It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.”
ACT 1 SCENE 4
Romeo: “I have a soul of lead…”
“… So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.”
ACT 1 SCENE 4
Romeo [about Cupid]: “I am too sore enpierced with his….”
“… shaft to soar with his light feathers”
ACT 1 SCENE 5
Romeo [about Juliet]: “Oh she doth teach…”
“… the torches to burn bright!”
ACT 1 SCENE 5
Romeo [about Juliet]: “As a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear…”
“… - Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear”
ACT 1 SCENE 5
Romeo [about Juliet]: “a snowy —– trooping with —–”
“A snowy dove trooping with crows”
ACT 1 SCENE 5
Juliet [about Romeo]: “If he be married, my —– is like to be my —— ——”
“If he be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed”
ACT 1 SCENE 5
Romeo [to Juliet]: “If I profane with my unworthiest hand…”
“… this holy shrine”
ACT 1 SCENE 5
Romeo [to Juliet]: “Thus from my lips, by thine, …”
“… my sin is purged”
ACT 1 SCENE 5
Chorus: “Now old desire doth in his death-bed lie…”
“… and young affection gapes to be his heir”
ACT 2 SCENE 1
Benvolio [about Romeo]: “—– is his love, and best befits the ——”
“Blind is his love, and best befits the dark”
ACT 2 SCENE 1
Mercutio: “Romeo! humours! ——-! passion! ——-!
“Romeo! humours! madman! passion! lover!”
ACT 2 SCENE 2
Romeo: “Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun,….”
“…. and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief that thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.”
ACT 2 SCENE 2
Romeo [to Juliet] : “Call me but love, and I’ll be…”
“…new baptised; Henceforth, I will never be Romeo”
ACT 2 SCENE 2
Romeo: “With love’s light —– did I —— these ——”
“With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls.”
ACT 2 SCENE 2
Romeo [to Juliet]: “My life were better ended by their hate, than…”
“… death prorogued, wanting of thy love.”
ACT 2 SCENE 2
Juliet [to Romeo]: “My bounty is as ——- as the ——, my —— as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I ——-, for both are ——”
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite”
ACT 2 SCENE 2
Romeo [to Juliet]: “O speak again, bright angel, for thou art…”
“…. as glorious to this night, being o’er my head, as is a winged messenger of heaven”
ACT 2 SCENE 2
Juliet [to Romeo]: “I should —– thee with much cherishing.”
“I should kill thee with much cherishing.”
ACT 2 SCENE 2
Juliet [to Romeo]: “And all my fortunes at thy foot…”
“… I’ll lay, and follow thee my lord throughout the world”
ACT 2 SCENE 3
Friar Lawrence: “Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts…”
“…. but in their eyes”
ACT 2 SCENE 4
Mercutio: “Alas, poor Romeo, he is already dead; stabbed with a white wench’s…”
“…. black eye, run through the ear with a love-song, the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind bow-boy’s butt-shaft; and is he a man to encounter Tybalt?”
ACT 2 SCENE 5
Juliet: “Love’s heralds should be thoughts, which….”
“….. ten times faster glides than the sun’s beams, driving back shadows over low’ring hills”
ACT 2 SCENE 5
Juliet: “Therefore do ——- —— doves draw Love, and therefore the wind-swift —– —-“
“Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love, and therefore the wind-swift Cupid wings.”
ACT 2 SCENE 5
Nurse [to Juliet]: “Are you so ——?”
“Are you so hot?”
ACT 2 SCENE 6
Romeo [about Juliet]: “Then love-devouring Death….”
“…. do what he dare, it is enough I may but call her mine”
ACT 2 SCENE 6
Friar Lawrence: “These violent —— have — ends, and in their ——- die like —– and powder, which as they —— consume”
“These violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume”
ACT 2 SCENE 6
Friar Lawrence: “The sweetest honey is loathsome…”
“…. in his own deliciousness, and in the taste confounds the appetite”
ACT 2 SCENE 6
Juliet: “But my true —– is grown to such —- I cannot —– up half my ——”
“But my true love is grown to such excess I cannot sum up half my wealth”
