


"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." -Juliet (act 3, scene 2)Ģ1. "If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark." -Mercutio (act 2, scene 1)Ģ1. "You kiss by the book." -Juliet (act 1, scene 5)Ģ0. "Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again." -Romeo (act 1, scene 5)ġ9. "Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, but love from love, toward school with heavy looks." -Romeo (act 2, scene 2)ġ8. Borrow Cupid's wings, and soar with them above a common bound." -Mercutio (act 1, scene 4)ġ7. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall, and a preserving sweet." -Romeo (act 1, scene 1)ġ6. "Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. "This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, may prove a beauteous flower when we next meet." -Juliet (act 2, scene 2)ġ5. Yet, wert thou as far as that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise." -Romeo (act 2, scene 2)ġ4. "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." -Romeo (act 2, scene 2)ġ3. "With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out, And what love can do, that dares love attempt." -Romeo (act 2, scene 2)ġ2. "O, swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable." -Juliet (act 2, scene 2)ġ1. "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright." -Romeo (act 1, scene 5)ġ0. "My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words of that tongue’s uttering, yet I know the sound." -Juliet (act 2, scene 2)ĩ. "Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, for I ne'er saw true beauty till this night." -Romeo (act 1, scene 5)Ĩ. "See how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek!" -Romeo (act 2, scene 2)ħ. The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite." -Juliet (act 2, scene 2)Ħ. "My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. "Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return." -Romeo (act 2, scene 2)ĥ. "One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun ne’er saw her match since first the world begun." -Romeo (act 1, scene 2)Ĥ.

"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" -Juliet (act 2, scene 2)ģ. "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." -Romeo (act 2, scene 2)Ģ. Whether you're in the throes of first love, seeking to rekindle the flame with your longtime sweetheart, or you just can't get enough of romance, these quotes will leave you swooning.ġ. Love, a common theme throughout Shakespeare’s work, is at the heart of Romeo and Juliet.

Here you'll find our favorite quotes from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to inspire your inner romantic.
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Yet when it comes to poetic words full of yearning, adoration, passion, heartache, devotion, and anguish, nothing comes close to the 16th-century original. Over the centuries, this tragic tale of star-crossed lovers from feuding Italian families-the Montagues and the Capulets-has inspired retellings from the modern classic West Side Story to a striking diversity of 21st-century takes, including These Violent Delights, When You Were Mine, Noughts and Crosses, Starry Eyes, Prince of Shadows, and Want. Penned by William Shakespeare early in his celebrated career, Romeo and Juliet endures as one of the Bard's best known, most frequently performed, and most quoted plays.
