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All 963 quotes in Romeo and Juliet.

  1. Chorus

    A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life

    Chorus

    Prologue

    Dramatic ironyA thread of starsGrade 9 insight
  2. Juliet

    O, happy dagger, / This is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die.

    Juliet

    Act 5, Scene 3

    Consummation or despair?
  3. Juliet

    My only love sprung from my only hate!

    Juliet

    Act 1, Scene 5

    Paradox made factGrade 9 insight
  4. Romeo

    O, I am Fortune's fool!

    Romeo

    Act 3, Scene 1

    Shared lineGrade 9 insight
  5. Friar Lawrence

    These violent delights have violent ends

    Friar Lawrence

    Act 2, Scene 6

    SententiaBrooke's moral
  6. Juliet

    It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, / Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be

    Juliet

    Act 2, Scene 2

    Read two waysGrade 9 insight
  7. Capulet

    Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch!

    Capulet

    Act 3, Scene 5

    His word returned
  8. Chorus

    From ancient grudge break to new mutiny

    Chorus

    Prologue

    Antithesis
  9. Mercutio

    A plague o' both your houses!

    Mercutio

    Act 3, Scene 1

    A curse that comes trueShifting the blame?
  10. Juliet

    What's in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other word would smell as sweet.

    Juliet

    Act 2, Scene 2

    The play's answerA rose and RosalineGrade 9 insight
  11. Chorus

    The fearful passage of their death-marked love

    Chorus

    Prologue

    ForeshadowingGrade 9 insight
  12. Juliet

    Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical!

    Juliet

    Act 3, Scene 2

    EchoTwo readingsGrade 9 insight
  13. Romeo

    But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? / It is the East, and Juliet is the sun.

    Romeo

    Act 2, Scene 2

    Night made by words
  14. Juliet

    O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? / Deny thy father and refuse thy name, / Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, / And I'll no longer be a Capulet.

    Juliet

    Act 2, Scene 2

    Grade 9 insight
  15. Capulet

    An you be mine, I'll give you to my friend. / An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets

    Capulet

    Act 3, Scene 5

    Grade 9 insight
  16. Romeo

    Is it e'en so? Then I deny you, stars!

    Romeo

    Act 5, Scene 1

    From fool to rebelThree readings
  17. Romeo

    Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, / O anything of nothing first create!

    Romeo

    Act 1, Scene 1

    Leaving the fashion behindGrade 9 insight
  18. Romeo

    Thy beauty hath made me effeminate / And in my temper softened valor's steel.

    Romeo

    Act 3, Scene 1

    The code, or Romeo's mistake?Grade 9 insight
  19. Romeo

    Away to heaven, respective lenity, / And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now.

    Romeo

    Act 3, Scene 1

    A choice framed by fateLoyalty, or fury?
  20. Capulet

    My child is yet a stranger in the world. / She hath not seen the change of fourteen years.

    Capulet

    Act 1, Scene 2

    Then and nowGrade 9 insight
  21. Capulet

    Let two more summers wither in their pride / Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.

    Capulet

    Act 1, Scene 2

    A frame of flowers
  22. Romeo

    Here's to my love. O true apothecary, / Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.

    Romeo

    Act 5, Scene 3

    Fulfilled or wasted?
  23. Romeo

    Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, / For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

    Romeo

    Act 1, Scene 5

    Healthy scepticism
  24. Tybalt

    What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word / As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.

    Tybalt

    Act 1, Scene 1

    Tybalt and the peacemakersGrade 9 insight
  25. Prince

    Three civil brawls bred of an airy word / By thee, old Capulet, and Montague, / Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets

    Prince

    Act 1, Scene 1

  26. Romeo

    If I profane with my unworthiest hand / This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: / My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand / To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

    Romeo

    Act 1, Scene 5

  27. Juliet

    Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, / Which mannerly devotion shows in this; / For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, / And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.

    Juliet

    Act 1, Scene 5

    Her quatrain
  28. Juliet

    My bounty is as boundless as the sea, / My love as deep. The more I give to thee, / The more I have, for both are infinite.

    Juliet

    Act 2, Scene 2

    Grade 9 insight
  29. Juliet

    I'll to the Friar to know his remedy. / If all else fail, myself have power to die.

    Juliet

    Act 3, Scene 5

    Rhyming coupletGrade 9 insight
  30. Juliet

    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.

    Juliet

    Act 1, Scene 3

    Her mother's formGrade 9 insight
  31. Mercutio

    O calm, dishonorable, vile submission! / Alla stoccato carries it away.

    Mercutio

    Act 3, Scene 1

    The trigger
  32. Juliet

    That “banishèd,” that one word “banishèd,” / Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts.

    Juliet

    Act 3, Scene 2

    Whose wordGrade 9 insight
  33. Capulet

    O brother Montague, give me thy hand. / This is my daughter's jointure, for no more / Can I demand.

    Capulet

    Act 5, Scene 3

  34. Capulet

    But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart; / My will to her consent is but a part.

    Capulet

    Act 1, Scene 2

    The standard he breaksKind, or confident?
  35. Juliet

    O, I have bought the mansion of a love / But not possessed it, and, though I am sold, / Not yet enjoyed.

    Juliet

    Act 3, Scene 2

    Echo forwardGrade 9 insight
  36. Juliet

    But old folks, many feign as they were dead, / Unwieldy, slow, heavy, and pale as lead.

    Juliet

    Act 2, Scene 5

    Grade 9 insight
  37. Friar Lawrence

    Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.

    Friar Lawrence

    Act 2, Scene 3

    Split coupletGrade 9 insight
  38. Prince

    A glooming peace this morning with it brings.

    Prince

    Act 5, Scene 3

    A closing sestetTwo words that argueGrade 9 insight
  39. Juliet

    My dismal scene I needs must act alone.

    Juliet

    Act 4, Scene 3

    MetreIsolation or independence?
  40. Nurse

    I think it best you married with the County.

    Nurse

    Act 3, Scene 5

    The go-between turnedGrade 9 insight