Famous Quotes from Romeo and Juliet

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

A plague o’ both your houses! – Mercutio

O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? – Juliet

Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast. – Friar Laurence

O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! – Romeo

If love be rough with you, be rough with love. – Mercutio

These violent delights have violent ends. – Friar Laurence

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow. – Juliet

For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo. – Prince Escalus

My only love sprung from my only hate! – Juliet

O happy dagger, this is thy sheath! – Juliet

Two households, both alike in dignity – Chorus

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. – Romeo

O brawling love! O loving hate! – Romeo

But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? – Romeo

I defy you, stars! – Romeo

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

This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, may prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. – Juliet

Give me my Romeo, and when I shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night, and pay no worship to the garish sun. – Juliet

Famous Quotes from Romeo and Juliet part 2

O serpent heart, hid with a flow’ring face! – Juliet

For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo. – Prince Escalus

My only love sprung from my only hate! – Juliet

O happy dagger, this is thy sheath! – Juliet

Two households, both alike in dignity – Chorus

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. – Romeo

O brawling love! O loving hate! – Romeo

But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? – Romeo

I defy you, stars! – Romeo

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

This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, may prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. – Juliet

Give me my Romeo, and when I shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night, and pay no worship to the garish sun. – Juliet

O serpent heart, hid with a flow’ring face! – Juliet

O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? – Juliet

What light through yonder window breaks? – Romeo

Parting is such sweet sorrow. – Juliet

O, speak again, bright angel! For thou art as glorious to this night, being o’er my head, as is a winged messenger of heaven. – Romeo

Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night. – Romeo

But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? – Romeo

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. – Juliet

Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, but love from love, toward school with heavy looks. – Romeo

Oh, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circled orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable. – Juliet

Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast. – Friar Laurence

These violent delights have violent ends – Friar Laurence

A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life. – Chorus

O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! – Romeo