Romeo and Juliet Quotes

Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.

– William Shakespeare

He that is strucken blind cannot forget
The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.

– William Shakespeare

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 sun.

– William Shakespeare

Younger than she are happy mothers made.

– William Shakespeare

O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you!
She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
On the fore-finger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomies
Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep.

– William Shakespeare

For you and I are past our dancing days.

– William Shakespeare

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

– William Shakespeare

One fire burns out another’s burning,
One pain is lessened by another’s anguish.

– William Shakespeare

The two hours’ traffic of our stage.

– William Shakespeare

Saint-seducing gold.

– William Shakespeare

The weakest goes to the wall.

– William Shakespeare

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?

– William Shakespeare

Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords.

– William Shakespeare

An hour before the worshipped sun
Peered forth the golden window of the east.

– William Shakespeare

O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright.
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.

– William Shakespeare

True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.

– William Shakespeare

My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

– William Shakespeare

I am the very pink of courtesy.

– William Shakespeare

These violent delights have violent ends.

– William Shakespeare

Men’s eyes were made to look, and let them gaze.

– William Shakespeare

Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night.

– William Shakespeare

It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden.

– William Shakespeare

At lovers’ perjuries,
They say, Jove laughs.

– William Shakespeare

Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night.

– William Shakespeare

O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circled orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.

– William Shakespeare