Romeo and Juliet – Key Quotes From Acts 1 and 2
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What! Drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word,
As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.
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Part, fools!
Put up your swords; you know not what you do.
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If ever you disturb our streets again,
Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.
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…O brawling love! O loving hate!
O anything of nothing first create.
O heavy lightness, serious vanity,
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs…
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…too soon marr’d are those so early made.
Earth hath swallow’d all my hopes but she;
She is the hopeful lady of my earth.
But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart,
My will to her consent is but a part…
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Go thither [to the ancient feast of Capulet’s];
And, with unattainted eye
Compare her face with some that I shall show,
And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
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Thou wast the prettiest babe that e’er I nurs’d;
And I might live to see thee married once,
I have my wish.
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[Marriage] is an honour that I dream not of.
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…you have dancing shoes
With nimble soles; I have a soul of lead…
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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, and expire the term
Of a despised life clos’d in my breast
By some vile forfeit of untimely death.
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O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
As a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear…
For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.
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This, by his voice, should be a Montague….
Now, by the stock and honour of my kin,
To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.
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He shall be endur’d….
Am I the master here, or you? Go to!…
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My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
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…If he be married,
My grave is like to be my wedding-bed.
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My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
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But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief…
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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.
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What is a Montague? It is nor hand nor foot
Nor arm nor face nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet…
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I have no joy of this contract to-night:
It is too rash, too unadvis’d, too sudden;
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say ‘It lightens’.
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…I am afeard,
Being in night, all this is but a dream,
Too flattering-sweet to be substantial.
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Parting is such sweet sorrow.
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In one respect I’ll thy assistant be.
For this alliance ,may so happy prove,
To turn your households’ rancour to pure love.
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Go wisely and slow: they stumble that run fast.
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Alas, poor Romeo, he is already dead! Stabbed
With a white wench’s black eye; run through the ear
With a love-song; the very pin of his heart cleft with
The blind bow-boy’s butt-shaft. And is he a man to
Encounter Tybalt?
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Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence’ cell,
There stays a husband to make you a wife.
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These violent delights have violent ends,
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder
Which as they kiss consume….