Romeo and Juliet Key Quotations

Romeo and Juliet Key Quotations

1. Family

   • "Two households, both alike in dignity"
   • "Deny thy father and refuse thy name"
     • "And I'll no longer be a Capulet"
   • "Henceforward I am ever ruled by you"

2. Conflict

   • "From ancient grudge break to new mutiny"
     • "Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean."
       • "O calm, dishonorable, vile submission!"
   • "Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?"
   • "That quench the fire of your pernicious rage"
   • "Fetch me my rapier, boy."
   • "O brawling love, O loving hate"
   • "A villain that is hither come in spite"
   • "A villain that is hither come in spite"
   • "My only love sprung from my only hate!"

3. Fate

   • "A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;"
   • "Some consequence yet hanging in the stars"
   • "By some vile forfeit of untimely death"
   • "My grave is like to be my wedding bed."
   • "O, I am fortune's fool!"
   • "I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve"
   • "O Fortune, Fortune! "
   • "Is it e'en so?—Then I defy you, stars!— "
   • "Unhappy fortune! "

4. Gender

   • "My naked weapon is out. Quarrel, I will back thee."
   • "We may think her ripe to be a bride"
   • "Stand an you be a man."
   • "Stand an you be a man."
   • "!I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday, Or never after look me in the face."
     • "Speak not; reply not; do not answer me."

5. Sex

   • "Therefore women, being the weaker vessels"
     • "Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads"
   • "Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit"
   • " When maids lie on their backs,/ That presses them and learns them first to bear"
   • "But you shall bear the burden soon at night."
   • "Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night"
   • "And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead"

6. Love

   • "Out of her favor, where I am in love."
   • "My only love sprung from my only hate!"
     • "That I must love a loathèd enemy."
   • "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon"
   • "My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand/ To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss."
     • "Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purged."
       • "You kiss by th' book."
   • "For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
   • "A choking gall, and a preserving sweet."
   • "Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs"