Romeo and Juliet Quotes

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the whole plot away; the feud will be over after their death Yet another repetition of how the situation will be solved Context/Notes Benvolio attempting to resolve the conflict in the streets An illustration of how aggressive Tybalt is Speaking generally about love and how he has lost his sense of identity: internal chaos Sampson (Capulet) is speaking of insulting the Montagues The prince as he's telling the families off His final threat of death to members of these households Montague describing the situation of Romeo Lady Montague expressing her concern of her son's condition to Benvolio Oxymoron creating a sense of confusion. Very poetic Benvolio speaking about how he vows to make Romeo forget Rosaline Context/ Notes Capulet is not yet certain about getting Juliet married Paris puts across his argument; she is effectively still young Benvolio says that Rosaline will be like a crow in comparison to the other women present Context/ Notos The blunt question from Lady Capulet to her daughter Quote I pray thee hold thy peace. It is an honour that I dream not of I was your mother much upon these years Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days. Act 1: Scene 4: Quote O then I see Queen Mab hath been with you Through lovers' brains, and they dream of love And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs / That presses them and learns them first to bear Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace! / Though talk'st of nothing Some consequence yet hanging in the stars By some vile forfeit of untimely death Act 1: Scene 5: This, by his voice should be a Montague / To strike him dead I hold it not a sin Oudte Verona brags of him/ To be a virtuous and well- governed youth My lips, two blushing pilgrims ready stand/ To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. / You kiss by th'book My life is my foe's debt My grave is like to be my wedding bed My only love sprung from my only hate Act 2: Scene 1: Act 2: Scene 2: Context/Notes Lady Capulet effectively telling the nurse to shut up Quote Juliet isn't very interested Lady Capulet is saying that she too married at 13 The nurse telling her to keep her mind open and await marriage Context/ Notes And foot it, girls Party preparations are in full swing She doth teach the torches to burn bright!/ For This is when Romeo first sees Juliet: love at I ne'er saw true beauty till this night first sight. Images here of light and dark Context/ Notes This is after a short conversation with Romeo about dreams The tranquil, peaceful side to the speech Increasingly sinister messages Near end...very sinister about sexual encounters with maids As if he were some disturbed child, Romeo asks Mercutio to calm down Fate as a result of going to the party (see next quote) This is foreshadowing the future events of their suicide Tybalt again presented as aggressive and nasty notices Romeo Lord Capulet asks him to hold back and just ignore his presence The sonnet between Romeo and Juliet when they first actually speak to each other Romeo finds out who Juliet is from the nurse Juliet now knows too; this quote signifies death Sense of a pure, kind person who only hates one thing; again, distressed Quote Nothing of specific interest for the exam occurs here Context/Notes Context/ Notes Quote Context/ Notes The brightness of her cheek would shame those Reference back to the prologue and ideas of stars light and dark again. Romeo says this to himself As is a winged messenger of heaven O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? / Deny thy father and refuse thy name / And I'll no longer be a Capulet What's in a name? Henceforth I never will be Romeo If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden Quote The earth's that nature's mother her tomb/ What is her burying grave, that is her womb Poison hath residence, and medicine power My bounty is as boundless as the sea, / My love Another declaration of love from Romeo as deep Act 2: Scene 3: Act 2: Scene 4: Quote Blind bow-boy's but shaft; and is he a man to encounter Tybalt Thy wit is very bitter sweeting If ye shall lead her in a fool's paradise Now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo Comparing Juliet to an angel The most famous line; she is asking Romeo to forget his family and if he will not, then she is happy to instead Bid her devise/ Some means to come to shrift this afternoon Juliet is questioning the importance of their names and why these make any difference or interference But this I pray, / That thou consent to marry us Romeo asks the question today Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here! To turn your households' rancour to pure love Act 2: Scene 5: Romeo is happy to give up his name Constant declaration of love Juliet is questioning whether this marriage is too hastily planned Context/ Notes This use of antithesis is important; it shows how there are two sides to everything. The rhyming couplets bring these ideas closer together The described flower has both powers; again, just like mankind. Shakespeare wants to present that humanity is both good and bad The friar is shocked and worried The friar agrees on this count that it will bring the families together Context/Notes. Mercutio is doubting Romeo's ability to fight Tybalt. Oxymoron by Mercutio; section of banter between the Montagues The nurse doesn't want Romeo to take advantage of Juliet Mercutio says that he is happy that Romeo has returned to his old self Sending message via nurse to Juliet about time of marriage Quote Is three long hours, yet she is not come Do you not see that I am out of breath? There stays a husband to make you a wife Act 2: Scene 6: Quote These violent delights have violent ends The love-devouring Death do what he dare Come, come with me and we will make short work Unfold the imagined happiness that both/ Receive in either by this dear encounter Act 3: Scene 1: Quote The day is hot, the Capels are abroad/ And if we meet we shall not escape a brawl Here's my fiddlestick, here's that shall make you dance Therefore turn and draw But love thee better than thou canst devise O calm, dishonourable, vile submission A plague a'both your houses Stand not amazed, the prince will doom thee death For blood of ours shed blood of Montague Immediately we do exile him hence Act 3: Scene 2: Quote And when I shall die, / Take him and cut him out in little stars Come, Night, come, Romeo Tybalt is gone and Romeo banished, / Romeo that killed him, he is banished Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead! And bid him come to take his last farewell Context/ Notes Juliet is impatient The Nurse is being annoying and taking forever to tell Juliet the news The marriage is planned and ready Context/ Notes The friar is concerned as to the suddenness of the marriage: we have foreshadowing of death Romeo again foreshadowing death The friar wants to get the ceremony over and done with Key love quote needed to contrast with the death included previously Context/Notes Benvolio is warning Mercutio that they should go before something bad happens Mercutio is showing his typical character to Tybalt Tybalt is asking Romeo to a fight Romeo tells Tybalt that he likes him, though that Tybalt currently doesn't know why Mercutio is disgraced at Romeo's response Mercutio is dead and wishes bad to both families Benvolio urges Romeo to get away as he is about to be punished Lady Capulet demands revenge and Romeo to be executed The prince banishes Romeo; a major turning point in the play Context/Notes. Juliet references the prologue in her soliloquy and death. Fate seems closer Juliet wants Romeo to come as they only ever see each other at night The nurse finally tells Juliet her news Juliet changes her mind, taking sides with Romeo and forgetting Tybalt Relation to death: she is saying that she wishes to die Juliet wants to see Romeo one final time Act 3: Scene 3: Quote I bring thee tidings of the Prince's doom For exile hath more terror in his look Hold thy desperate hand! To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends Act 3: Scene 4: Quote Well, we were born to die A'Thursday, tell her, / She shall be married to this noble earl Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love May call it early by and by Act 3: Scene 5: Believe me, love, it was the nightingale And light thee on thy way to Mantua I will omit no opportunity / That may convey my greetings, love, to thee Methinks I see thee now, thou art so low as one dead in the bottom of a tomb God pardon him, I do with all my heart Hath sorted out a day of sudden joy He shall not make me there a joyful bride Tell him so yourself; / And see how he will take it at your hands And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets Or if you do not, make the bridal bed / In that dim monument where Tybalt lies If all else fail, myself have power to die Act 4: Scene 1: QUOTE Thy face is mine and thou hast slandered it Context/Notes Friar Lawrence is telling Romeo of the latest events Romeo too wants to die Romeo has just nearly committed suicide, but the Nurse grabs the dagger. The Friar tells him not to Friar says that in time Romeo's life may be back to normal: we can doubt it as Romeo acts hastily Context/Notes Capulet uses this as a reason for a hasty marriage; their lives aren't very long Lord Capulet marries off his daughter Imperatives to Lady Capulet: she is bossed around by her husband It will be soon Context/Notes Juliet speaking ambiguously: very pure images Idea from Juliet that light is good as she wishes a good journey to Romeo Romeo says goodbye Juliet foreshadows future events, seeing Romeo dead in tomb Juliet says that she forgives Romeo for Tybalt's death in front of Lady Capulet Lady Capulet tells her of wedding Juliet is not impressed Lady Capulet is not standing up for her daughter: poor relationship Capulet has become ruthless, telling Juliet he will disown her Talk of suicide and death: she will do so if they do not delay the marriage for a month or a week Act ends with Juliet talking strongly of suicide Contexty Notes Paris sees Juliet has been crying and just speaks about owning her Quote Be not so long to speak, I long to die No warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest Act 4: Scene 2: Quote Henceforth am I ever ruled by you My heart is wondrous light, / Since this wayward girl is so reclaimed Act 4: Scene 3: Quote What if this mixture do not work not all? And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Here's drink-I drink to thee! Act 4: Scene 4: Hold, take these keys and fetch more spices, Nurse! Go, waken Juliet, go and trim her up Act 4: Scene 5: Quote Marry and amen! How sound is she asleep! Death lies upon her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field Never was seen so black a day as this And in her best array, bear her to church Act 5: Scene 1: Quote He body sleeps in Capels' monument Is it e'en so? then I defy you, stars! Then be not poor, but break it and take this Context/ Notes Juliet will commit suicide of the Friar doesn't come up with something QUDLE I could not send it-here it is again The friar will give her a potion which will make her seem dead Context/Notes Juliet apologises to her father and effectively agrees to the marriage Capulet is very happy with Juliet's choice; an ironic and false outcome Context/ Notes Juliet is concerned about whether the potion will work Juliet portrays a very horrid image of the tomb Eventually she decides to try the drink and see whether it works out Context/ Notes The scene is very busy with final preparations; this is in direct contrast to the previous scene Capulet tells the nurse to get Juliet ready Context/Notes The Nurse is shocked by the 'death' of Juliet Lord Capulet tells the ion very poetically The Nurse, still in despair The Friar pretends he knows of nothing that has happened Context/ Notes Balthasar tells Romeo of the 'death' of Juliet This is ironic; Romeo thinks that he is going against fate, but from the prologue, these events are leading to his fate Romeo bribes the apothecary; this shows quite a nasty side to him as potentially the apothecary could be hung for this Come, cordial and not poison, go with me / To Romeo is now going to commit suicide using his Juliet's grave, for there must I use thee illegal potion Act 5: Scene 2: Context/ Notes Friar John was unable to get the message to Quote And the neglecting it / May do much danger Poor living corse, closed in a dead man's tomb Act 5: Scene 3: Quble Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew Mercutio's kinsman, noble County Paris For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes / This vault a feasting presence full of light The dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark! O true apothecary! / Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die This is that banished haughty Montague, / That Paris suggests that Romeo killing Tybalt caused murdered my love's cousin Juliet's death Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet I will kiss thy lips, / Haply have some poison yet doth hang on them Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger Myself condemnèd and myself excused A sleeping potion, which so took effect Here untimely lay, / The noble Paris and true Romeo dead Miscarried by my fault, let my old life / Be sacrificed See what scourge is laid upon your hate Context/Notes Oh brother Montague, give me thy hand Romeo Friar is now very concerned The Friar's plan is going completely under; he is worried for Juliet too For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo Context/Notes Paris is paying his respects to Juliet After Romeo kills Paris, Paris asks to lie next to Juliet Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet And he begins to reveal the story Romeo and Paris would've got on as it turns out that he was Mercutio's kinsman Images of light again for Juliet from Romeo inn his final soliloquy. Very romantic language Romeo compares his and Juliet's journey to that of one at sea ending in disaster Romeo's last few seconds, pledging his final love for Juliet Juliet now wants to die too Juliet too commits suicide The Friar introduces the story with his own blame The prince tries to end the conflict once and for all The two families make up, depicted though, as the two lords The prince ends the whole play with this simple summary