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100 famous quotes from William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet":

  • Writer: ELA
    ELA
  • Mar 8, 2024
  • 2 min read
  1. "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?"

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

  3. "A plague o' both your houses!"

  4. "Parting is such sweet sorrow."

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

  6. "O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die."

  7. "Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; But love from love, toward school with heavy looks."

  8. "For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo."

  9. "I do protest I never injured thee, But love thee better than thou canst devise."

  10. "Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow."

  11. "Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!"

  12. "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."

  13. "Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast."

  14. "All are punished."

  15. "O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical! Dove-feathered raven! Wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of divinest show! Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st, A damned saint, an honorable villain!"

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

  17. "Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn."

  18. "I fear too early, for my mind misgives, some consequence yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin his fearful date with this night's revels."

  19. "When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew."

  20. "O, she is rich in beauty, only poor that when she dies with beauty dies her store."

  21. "There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, all forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers."

  22. "Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."

  23. "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."

  24. "What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee."

 
 
 

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