Favorite Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet Quotes

Romeo and Juliet is a play about star-crossed lovers. The play is one of the most famous works by William Shakespeare. Lovers (Romeo and Juliet) are caught between two worlds, as their families feud to the death. Fights, witty lines, secret marriages, and untimely deaths--the play is unforgettable! Here are a few lines from Romeo and Juliet.

•"One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun
Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun."
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 1.2


•"For you and I are past our dancing days"
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 1.5


•"O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright"
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 1.5


•"Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!/ For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 1.5


•"It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear"
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 1.5


•"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."
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 2.2


•"It is the east, and Juliet is the sun"
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 2.2


•"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


•"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."
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 3.5


•"Or bid me go into a new-made grave,
And hide me with a dead man in his shroud -
Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble -
And I will do it without fear or doubt,
To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love."
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 4.1


•"Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty"
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 4.2


•"O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day!
Most lamentable day. Most woeful day
That ever, ever I did yet behold!
O day, O day, O day! O hateful day!
Never was seen so black a day as this.
O woeful day! O woeful day!"
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 4.5


•"I dreamt my lady came and found me dead"
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 5.1


•"Then I defy you, stars!"
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 5.1


•"O my love, my wife!
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty."
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 5.3


•"Tempt not a desperate man"
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 5.3


•"A greater power than we can contradict
Hath thwarted our intents."
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 5.3


•"For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 5.3