Romeo and Juliet quotes

“Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.”

• William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 2.2

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”

• William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 2.2

“See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek!”

• William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 2.2

“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast”

• William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 2.3

“These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume.”

• William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 2.3

“A plague o’ both your houses!”

• William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 3.1

“This day’s black fate on more days doth depend: This but begins the woe others must end.”

• William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 3.1

“Romeo is banished, There is no end, no limit, measure, bound, In that word’s death. No words can that woe sound.”

• William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 3.2

“Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven and may look on her, But Romeo may not.”

• William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 3.3

“Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.”

• William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 3.5