Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Romeo and Juliet.
Love Quotes
BENVOLIO […] What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?ROMEO Not having that, which, having, makes them short.BENVOLIO In love?ROMEO Out—BENVOLIO Of love?ROMEO Out of her favor, where I am in love.(...
Hate Quotes
Enter Chorus.Two households, both alike in dignity(In fair Verona, where we lay our s...
Sex Quotes
SAMPSON'Tis true, and therefore women, being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the wall. Therefore I will push Montague's men from the wall, and thrust his maids to the wall. GREGOR...
Youth Quotes
LORD CAPULET What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!LADY CAPULETA crutch, a crutch! Why call you for a sword? Enter...
Art and Culture Quotes
BENVOLIO Why Romeo, art thou mad? ROMEO Not mad, but bound more than a madman is, Shut up in prison, kept without my food, Whipped and tormented and good e'en, good fellow. (1.2.56-60)
Transience Quotes
CAPULET Welcome, gentlemen. I have seen the day That I have worn a visor and could tell A whispering tale in a fair lady's ear, Such as would please. 'Tis gone, 'tis gone, 'tis gone (1.5.25-28)
Mortality Quotes
CHORUSThe fearful passage of their death-marked love […] Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage; (Prologue.9, 12)
Gender Quotes
SAMPSON'Tis true; and therefore women, being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the wall. Therefore I will push Montague's men from the wall, and thrust his maids to the wall.GREGORY The quarre...
Fate and Free Will Quotes
Enter ChorusTwo households, both alike in dignity(In fair Verona, where we lay...
Marriage Quotes
CAPULETMy child is yet a stranger in the world.She hath not seen the change of fourteen years.Let two more summers wither in their prideEre we may think her ripe to be a bride.PARIS Younger than sh...
Family Quotes
Enter ChorusTwo households, both alike in dignity(In fair Verona, where we lay...
Foolishness and Folly Quotes
ABRAHAM Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?SAMPSON I do bite my thumb, sir.ABRAHAM Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?SAMPSON, aside to Gregory Is the law of our side, if I say 'Ay'...
Exile Quotes
LADY CAPULET I beg for justice, which thou, prince, must give. Romeo slew Tybalt; Romeo must not live. PRINCE Romeo slew him, he slew Mercutio. Who now the price of his dear blood doth owe? MONTAG...