Romeo And Juliet Important Quotes

Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use,
Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.

These violent delights have violent ends.

What light through yonder window breaks?

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love… ‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.

Is there no pity sitting in the clouds That sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me not away! Delay this marriage for a month, a week, Or if you do not, make the bridal bed In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.

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

Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!

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

My only love sprung from my only hate.

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. – Romeo –

My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.

Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

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

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume

One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun.

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?