| Quote |
Character |
Act/Scene |
| “O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this. Doust thou not laugh?” |
Romeo |
Act 1 Scene 1 |
| “And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.” |
Benvolio |
Act 1 Scene 2 |
| “And to sin in it, should you burthen love – Too great oppression for a tender thing.” |
Mercutio |
Act 1 Scene 4 |
| "Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous and it pricks like a thorn.” |
Romeo |
Act 1 Scene 4 |
| “Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night, like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear.” |
Romeo |
Act 1 Scene 5 |
| “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” |
Romeo |
Act 1 Scene 5 |
| “Alike bewitched by the charm of looks” |
The Chorus |
Act 2 Prologue |
| “Blind is his love and best befits the dark.” |
Benvolio |
Act 2 Scene 1 |
| “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and 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.” |
Romeo |
Act 2 Scene 2 |
| “I take thee at thy word. Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized. Henceforth I never will be Romeo.” |
Romeo |
Act 2 Scene 2 |
| “O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name. Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I’ll no longer be a Capulet.” |
Juliet |
Act 2 Scene 2 |
| “My love as deep. The more I give to thee the more I have, for both are infinite.” |
Juliet |
Act 2 Scene 2 |
| “If that thy bent of love be honourable, thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow.” |
Juliet |
Act 2 Scene 2 |
| “The clock struck nine when I did send the Nurse. In half an hour she promised to return. Perchance she cannot meet him. That’s not so. Oh, she is lame! Love’s heralds should be thoughts, which ten times faster glide than the sun’s beams, driving back shadows over louring hills.” |
Juliet |
Act 2 Scene 5 |
| “love-devouring death do what he dare; it is enough I may but call her name.” |
Romeo |
Act 2 Scene 6 |
| “Ah Juliet, if the measure of thy joy be heaped like mine, and that thy skill be more to blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath this neighbour air, and let rich music’s tongue unfold the imagined happiness that both receive in either by this dear encounter.” |
Romeo |
Act 2 Scene 6 |
| “But my true love is grown to such excess I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.” |
Juliet |
Act 2 Scene 6 |
| "My lord, I would that Thursday were tomorrow.” |
Paris |
Act 3 Scene 4 |
| “If all else fail, myself I have power to die.” |
Juliet |
Act 3 Scene 5 |
| “Wilt thou be gone? It is yet near day.” |
Juliet |
Act 3 Scene 5 |
| “Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight. Let’s see for means. O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!” |
Romeo |
Act 5 Scene 1 |
| “Eyes, look your last. Arms, take your last embrace. And, lips, O you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death.” |
Romeo |
Act 5 Scene 3 |
| “Oh, I am slain! If thou be merciful, open the tomb. Lay me with Juliet.” |
Paris |
Act 5 Scene 3 |
