R and J Quotes
Younger than she are happy mothers made.
Paris to Capulet Talking about how girls younger than Juliet are married and happy Act 1 Scene II
Juliet, on Thursday early will I rouse you. Till, then, adieu, and keep this holy kiss.
Paris to Juliet and Friar Saying that he will wake her up on Thursday for wedding Act 4 Scene I
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.
Romeo to Benvolio Saying how love stinks/ Rosaline doesn't love him Act 1 Scene I Yes, this is what love does. My sadness sits heavy in my chest, and you want to add your own sadness to mine so there's even more. I have too much sadness already, and now you're going to make me sadder by feeling sorry for you. Here's what love is: a smoke made out of lovers' sighs. When the smoke clears, love is a fire burning in your lover's eyes. If you frustrate love, you get an ocean made out of lovers' tears. What else is love? It's a wise form of madness. It's a sweet lozenge that you choke on. Goodbye, cousin.
I fear too early, for my mind misgives Some consequence yet hanging in the stars Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night's revels, and expire the term Of a despisèd life closed in my breast By some vile forfeit of untimely death
Romeo to Benvolio Talking about how he senses something bad about the party that he is going to tonight and might lead to his death Act 1 Scene IV I'm worried we'll get there too early. I have a feeling this party tonight will be the start of something bad, something that will end with my own death. But whoever's in charge of where my life's going can steer me wherever they want. Onward, lover boys!
Tybalt, the kinsman to old Capulet, Hath sent a letter to his father's house.
Benvolio to Mercutio Saying that a letter has been sent to Romeo from Tybalt Act 2 Scene IV
Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.
Benvolio to Romeo Saying that Romeo needs to look at other women/ get over Rosaline Act 1 Scene II
All things that we ordained festival Turn from their office to black funeral. Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast.
Capulet to Friar Saying all wedding preparations will be used for funeral Act 4 Scene V All the things that we prepared for the wedding party will now be used for the funeral. Our happy music will now be sad. Our wedding banquet will become a sad burial feast. Our celebratory hymns will change to sad funeral marches. Our bridal flowers will cover a buried corpse. And everything will be used for the opposite purpose from what we intended.
The most you sought was her promotion, For 'twas your heaven she should be advanced. And weep ye now, seeing she is advanced Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself?
Friar to Capulet Saying that Capulet always wanted Juliet to be high in the social ladder and now she is in heaven/ ironic Act 4 Scene V The most you hope for was for her to marry wealthy and rise up the social ladder—that was your idea of heaven. And now you cry, even though she has risen up above the clouds, as high as heaven itself?
Young men's love then lies Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
Friar to Romeo Saying that men focus more on physical beauty Act 2 Scene III
In one respect I'll thy assistant be, For this alliance may so happy prove To turn your households' rancor to pure love.
Friar to Romeo Saying the marriage can mend the relationship of the households Act 2 Scene III
These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
Friar to Romeo Saying the marriage is risky/ oxymorons/ could be good or bad Act 2 Scene VI These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder. When they meet, as in a kiss, they explode. Too much honey is delicious, but it makes you sick to your stomach. Therefore, love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.
Within the infant rind of this small flower Poison hath residence and medicine power. For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part; Being tasted, stays all senses with the heart. Two such opposèd kings encamp them still, In man as well as herbs—grace and rude will. And where the worser is predominant, Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.
Friar to himself/ Romeo Foreshadowing marriage of their marriage/ both good and bad Act 2 Scene III Inside the little rind of this weak flower, there is both poison and powerful medicine. If you smell it, you feel good all over your body. But if you taste it, you die. There are two opposite elements in everything, in men as well as in herbs—good and evil.
They are but beggars that can count their worth. But my true love is grown to such excess I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.
Juliet to Friar and Romeo Saying how happy she is for their marriage Act 2 Scene VI
Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day. It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear.
Juliet to Romeo Saying this before Romeo has to go to Mantua Act 3 Scene V
Love's heralds should be thoughts, Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams, Driving back shadows over louring hills'.
Juliet to herself Wondering about where the Nurse is Act 2 Scene 5 Love's messengers should be thoughts, which fly ten times faster than sunbeams. They should be strong enough to push shadows over the dark hills.
Talk not to me, for I'll not speak a word. Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee.
Lady Capulet to Juliet Saying that Juliet can do what she wants about marrying Paris Act 3 Scene V
He is already dead, stabbed with a white wench's black eye, shot through the ear with a love song, the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind bow-boy's butt shaft
Mercutio to Benvolio Talking about how Romeo is broken because of Rosaline Act 2 Scene IV He's already dead. He's been stabbed by a white girl's black eye. He's been cut through the ear with a love song. The center of his heart has been split by blind Cupid's arrow. Is he man enough at this point to face off with Tybalt?
True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Mercutio to Romeo Saying that dreams are dumb and don't mean anything Act 1 Scene IV True. I'm talking about dreams, which are the products of a brain that's doing nothing. Dreams are nothing but silly imagination, as thin as air, and less predictable than the wind, which sometimes blows on the frozen north and then gets angry and blows south.
A plague o' both your houses!
Mercutio to all fighting Says this after he gets injured Act 3 Scene I
But he, his own affections' counselor, Is to himself—I will not say how true, But to himself so secret and so close, So far from sounding and discovery, As is the bud bit with an envious worm, Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the same.
Montague to Benvolio Talking about how Romeo is sad and doesn't want to talk about the reason why he is sad Act 1 Scene I I've tried, and many of our friends have tried to make him talk, but he keeps his thoughts to himself. He doesn't want any friend but himself, and though I don't know whether he's a good friend to himself, he certainly keeps his own secrets. He's like a flower bud that won't open itself up to the world because it's been poisoned from within by parasites. If we could only find out why he's sad, we'd be as eager to help him as we were to learn the reason for his sadness.
There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men. All perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers. Ah, where's my man?—Give me some aqua vitae.— These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old. Shame come to Romeo!
Nurse to Juliet Saying that Romeo is not good/ Juliet should look for other men/ after he has killed Tybalt Act 3 Scene II
Hie you to church. I must another way To fetch a ladder, by the which your love Must climb a bird's nest soon when it is dark.
Nurse to Juliet Telling Juliet that Romeo wants to marry and that the ladder will allow him to get to the balcony Act 2 Scene V Go to the church. I must go by a different path to get a rope ladder. Your love will use it to climb up to your window while it's dark.