Famous Quotes from Romeo and Juliet

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. – Juliet

O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? – Juliet

These violent delights have violent ends. – Friar Laurence

For never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo. – Prince Escalus

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. – Romeo

Parting is such sweet sorrow. – Juliet

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. – Juliet

A plague o’ both your houses! – Mercutio

Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; But love from love, towards school with heavy looks. – Romeo

See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand. – Romeo

My only love sprung from my only hate. – Juliet

O, I am fortune’s fool! – Romeo

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. – Friar Laurence

The course of true love never did run smooth. – Friar Laurence

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn. – Romeo

What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. – Romeo

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. – Friar Laurence

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. – Juliet

Famous Quotes from Romeo and Juliet part 2

Two households, both alike in dignity. – Chorus

This day’s black fate on more days doth depend; this but begins the woe others must end. – Romeo

Graze where you will, you shall not house with me. – Juliet

Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! – Romeo

I am hurt. A plague o’ both your houses! – Mercutio

Tempt not a desperate man. – Romeo

For stony limits cannot hold love out. – Romeo

Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change. – Juliet

Give me my Romeo, and when I shall die, take him and cut him into little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night. – Juliet

O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! – Juliet

Love moderately. Long love doth so. – Mercutio

Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn, the gallant, young, and noble gentleman, the County Paris, at Saint Peter’s Church, shall happily make thee there a joyful bride. – Juliet’s Nurse

Love is a rebellious bird that nobody can tame. – Mercutio

Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. – Friar Laurence

These happy masks that kiss fair ladies’ brows, being black, puts us in mind they hide the fair. – Romeo

My poverty, but not my will, consents. – Romeo

My love is thine to teach. Teach it but how, and thou shalt see how apt it is to learn and prove. – Romeo

O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus, with a kiss, I die. – Romeo

Affliction is enamored of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity. – Friar Laurence

O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies’ midwife. – Mercutio

I am no pilot; yet, wert thou as far as that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise. – Romeo

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove. – Sonnet 116

My bounty is as boundless as the sea. – Juliet

Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund daylight stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops. – Romeo

O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright. – Romeo

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

There is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls, doing more murders in this loathsome world than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. – Romeo