Other useful Romeo and Juliet quotes

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Friar Lawrence tells Romeo that while he was loving Rosaline he was speaking the language of a lover as if he had learnt it by heart, rather than really knowing what it meant. 'Thy love did read by rote that could not spell.'
At the end of the balcony, Romeo and Juliet use metaphors of: Falconry. Romeo says, 'I would I were thy bird', which suggests that he imagines himself in the less free, more submissive role.
When Romeo first sees Juliet at the Capulet ball, he says: 'O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!'
After Romeo and Juliet kiss, Juliet says: 'You kiss by the book'
After he is wounded, Mercutio says what 3 times? 'A plague on both your houses'
After Tybalt kills Mercutio, Romeo becomes very angry, and sounds like the obsessive hero in a Revenge Tragedy when he says: 'fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!'
At the start of the play, Montague describes Romeo's behaviour to Benvolio. '[Romeo] private in his chamber pens himself [...] And makes himself an artificial night.'
When Benvolio approaches Romeo at the start of the play, Romeo describes love as: 'a smoke made with the fume of sighs'
When Romeo sees Juliet for the first time, he asks one of the servants: 'What lady's that which doth enrich the hand of yonder knight?'
At the start of the balcony scene, Romeo says to Juliet that he will abandon his name if she loves him. Again, he uses religious language. 'Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I will never be Romeo.'
When Mercutio and Benvolio leave stage after Mercutio is wounded, but before Benvolio comes back on stage to tell Romeo that he died, Romeo says that Juliet's beauty has made him ...? effeminate
When Juliet refuses to agree to marry Paris, Capulet says to her: 'Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch'
Juliet's soliloquy at the start of 3.2 begins: 'Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds'
When Paris asks Capulet for permission to woo Juliet, Capulet says: 'Let two more summers wither in their pride, Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.'
Give an example of the Nurse making a sexual joke. 'Thou wilt fall backward when thou comest to age'
When Lady Capulet initially asks Juliet about Paris' love, Juliet responds: 'I'll look to like, if looking liking move. But no more deep will I endart mine eye Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.
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