5 Quotes From Romeo
Romeo Quotes in Romeo and Juliet The Romeo and Juliet quotes below are all either spoken by Romeo or refer to Romeo. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one.
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- ROMEO Is it e'en so?—Then I defy you, stars!— (5.1.25) When Romeo hears from Balthasar that Juliet is dead (well, fake-dead), he declares 'I defy you, stars!' True, he does have a plan to make sure that he and Juliet end up together despite the stars.
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- Romeo asks for poison 'A dram of poison' - Apothecary says no, suicide and poison are against the law 'Such mortal drugs I have, but Mantua's law is death to any he that utters them'. Romeo offers the poor Apothecary money 'be not poor, but break it and take this'.
| “Come, come away. Thy husband in thy bosom lies dead, And Paris, too. Come, I’ll dispose of thee Among a sisterhood of holy nuns” (5. 3. 167-170). | a. Said by Friar Laurence b. Friar Laurence says Paris, and Romeo are dead and he will find a convert of nuns for Juliet to join. |
| “Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardoned, and some punished; For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and Romeo” (5. 3. 332-335). | a. Said by Prince Escalus b. Prince tells everyone to spread the word of Romeo and Juliet’s death. Both families have lost both an enemy and a child, and both are in despair. Also, everyone not only the Capulet and Montague families have lost someone they love through the family feud. |
| “Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou art not conquered. Beauty’s ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death’s pale flag is not advanced there” (5. 3. 95-99). | a. Said by Romeob. Romeo notices death has not settled in Juliet (it has not affected her beauty). Furthermore, Juliet’s lips are still red and her cheeks rosy. |
| “O, I am slain! If thou be merciful. Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet” (5. 3. 75-76). | a. Said by Parisb. Paris is killed by Romeo and asked to be placed in the tomb with Juliet. |
| “Here’s to my love! O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die” (5. 3. 122-123). | a. Said by Romeo b. Romeo is saying the poison will be quick and painless, by the time it touches his lips he will be dead. |
| “Such mortal drugs I have; but Mantua’s law Is death to any he that utter them” (5. 1. 70-73). | a. Said by the apothecaryb. The apothecary is telling Romeo he has the drugs Romeo requests, but selling them would be a crime, punishable by death. |
| “See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love. And I, for winking at your discords too, Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished” (5. 3. 316-319). | a. Said by Princeb. Prince is blaming the family feud for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Prince says Heaven has killed their children with love, and he personally lost 2 relatives (Mercutio and Paris). Ultimately, they have all been punished from this family feud. |
| “Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe That unsubstantial Death is amorous, And that the lean abhorred monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour?” (5. 3. 105-108). | a. Said by Romeob. Romeo cannot get over how beautiful Juliet still looks. Romeo then, asks whether Death is loving and whether it has taken Juliet as its lover. |
| “Now must I to the monument alone. Within this three hours will fair Juliet wake. She will beshrew me much that Romeo Hath had no notice of these accidents” (5. 2. 25-28). | a. Said by Friar Laurence b. Frair Laurence says he must hurry to Juliet’s side since she will awaken in 3 hours, and Juliet will be furious with him because Romeo was not given the message of their plan. |
| “Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die” (5. 3. 181-182). | a. Said by Julietb. The guards are coming to the tomb, and Juliet decides she will quickly kill herself with Romeo’s knife before they see her. |
| “My poverty but not will consents” (5. 1. 80). | a. Said by the apothecary b. The apothecary says he giving the poison to Romeo for the money, not because he thinks it is right. |
| Romeo to himself | O mischief, thou are swift / To enter in the thoughts of desperate men! (126) |
| Romeo to the Apothecary | There is thy gold-worse poison to men’s soul, / Doing more murder in this loathsome world / That these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell (128). |
| Romeo to Balthasar | But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry / In what I farther shall intend to do, / By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint / And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs. |
| Romeo to himself/tomb door | Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, / Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth, / Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open, / And in despite I’ll cram thee with more food (132). |
| Romeo to Paris | By heaven, I love thee better than myself, / For I come hither armed against myself. / Stay not, be gone. Live, and hereafter say / A madman’s mercy bid thee run away (132). |
| Romeo to “dead” Juliet | Thou art not conquered. Beauty’s ensign yet / Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, / And death’s pale flag is not advanced there (134). |
| Romeo to “dead” Juliet | Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe / That unsubstantial Death is amorous, / And that the lean abhorred monster keeps / Thee here in dark to be his paramour? / For fear of that I still will stay with thee…(134). |
| Romeo to “dead” Juliet | …Here, here will I remain / With worms that are thy chambermaids (134). |
| Romeo to “dead” Juliet | …Eyes, look your last / Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, O you / The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss / A dateless bargain to engrossing death! (134) |
| Juliet to Romeo | O churl! Drunk all and left no friendly drop / To help me after? (136) |
| Juliet to the dagger/herself | …O happy dagger! / This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die. |
| Prince Escalus to the Capulets/Montagues | Where be these enemies? Capulet, Montague, / See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, / That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love, / And I, for winking at your discords too, / Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished (142). |
| Lord Capulet to Lord Montague | O brother Montague, give me thy hand. / This is my daughter’s jointure, for no more / Can I demand (142). |
| Prince Escalus to the Capulets/Montagues | A glooming peace this morning with it brings. / The sun for sorrow will not show his head. / Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; / Some shall be pardoned, and some punished; / For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo (142). |
Romeo and Juliet Act III Vocabulary
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| # | Act, Scene, Line (Click to see in context) | Speech text |
1 | How now! who calls? | |
2 | Madam, I am here. | |
3 | And stint thou too, I pray thee, nurse, say I. | |
4 | It is an honour that I dream not of. | |
5 | I'll look to like, if looking liking move: | |
6 | Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, | |
7 | Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer. | |
8 | Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake. | |
9 | Then have my lips the sin that they have took. | |
10 | You kiss by the book. | |
11 | Come hither, nurse. What is yond gentleman? | |
12 | What's he that now is going out of door? | |
13 | What's he that follows there, that would not dance? | |
14 | Go ask his name: if he be married. | |
15 | My only love sprung from my only hate! | |
16 | A rhyme I learn'd even now | |
17 | Ay me! | |
18 | O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? | |
19 | 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; | |
20 | What man art thou that thus bescreen'd in night | |
21 | My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words | |
22 | How camest thou hither, tell me, and wherefore? | |
23 | If they do see thee, they will murder thee. | |
24 | I would not for the world they saw thee here. | |
25 | By whose direction found'st thou out this place? | |
26 | Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, | |
27 | O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, | |
28 | Do not swear at all; | |
29 | Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee, | |
30 | What satisfaction canst thou have to-night? | |
31 | I gave thee mine before thou didst request it: | |
32 | But to be frank, and give it thee again. | |
33 | Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed. | |
34 | I come, anon.—But if thou mean'st not well, | |
35 | By and by, I come:— | |
36 | A thousand times good night! | |
37 | Hist! Romeo, hist! O, for a falconer's voice, | |
38 | Romeo! | |
39 | At what o'clock to-morrow | |
40 | I will not fail: 'tis twenty years till then. | |
41 | I shall forget, to have thee still stand there, | |
42 | 'Tis almost morning; I would have thee gone: | |
43 | Sweet, so would I: | |
44 | The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse; | |
45 | Now, good sweet nurse,—O Lord, why look'st thou sad? | |
46 | I would thou hadst my bones, and I thy news: | |
47 | How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath | |
48 | No, no: but all this did I know before. | |
49 | I' faith, I am sorry that thou art not well. | |
50 | Where is my mother! why, she is within; | |
51 | Here's such a coil! come, what says Romeo? | |
52 | I have. | |
53 | Hie to high fortune! Honest nurse, farewell. | |
54 | Good even to my ghostly confessor. | |
55 | As much to him, else is his thanks too much. | |
56 | Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, | |
57 | Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds, | |
58 | Ay me! what news? why dost thou wring thy hands? | |
59 | Can heaven be so envious? | |
60 | What devil art thou, that dost torment me thus? | |
61 | O, break, my heart! poor bankrupt, break at once! | |
62 | What storm is this that blows so contrary? | |
63 | O God! did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood? | |
64 | O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! | |
65 | Blister'd be thy tongue | |
66 | Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband? | |
67 | Wash they his wounds with tears: mine shall be spent, | |
68 | O, find him! give this ring to my true knight, | |
69 | Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day: | |
70 | Yon light is not day-light, I know it, I: | |
71 | It is, it is: hie hence, be gone, away! | |
72 | Nurse? | |
73 | Then, window, let day in, and let life out. | |
74 | Art thou gone so? love, lord, ay, husband, friend! | |
75 | O think'st thou we shall ever meet again? | |
76 | O God, I have an ill-divining soul! | |
77 | O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle: | |
78 | Who is't that calls? is it my lady mother? | |
79 | Madam, I am not well. | |
80 | Yet let me weep for such a feeling loss. | |
81 | Feeling so the loss, | |
82 | What villain madam? | |
83 | [Aside] Villain and he be many miles asunder.— | |
84 | Ay, madam, from the reach of these my hands: | |
85 | Indeed, I never shall be satisfied | |
86 | And joy comes well in such a needy time: | |
87 | Madam, in happy time, what day is that? | |
88 | Now, by Saint Peter's Church and Peter too, | |
89 | Not proud, you have; but thankful, that you have: | |
90 | Good father, I beseech you on my knees, | |
91 | Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, | |
92 | O God!—O nurse, how shall this be prevented? | |
93 | Speakest thou from thy heart? | |
94 | Amen! | |
95 | Well, thou hast comforted me marvellous much. | |
96 | Ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend! | |
97 | That may be, sir, when I may be a wife. | |
98 | What must be shall be. | |
99 | To answer that, I should confess to you. | |
100 | I will confess to you that I love him. | |
101 | If I do so, it will be of more price, | |
102 | The tears have got small victory by that; | |
103 | That is no slander, sir, which is a truth; | |
104 | It may be so, for it is not mine own. | |
105 | O shut the door! and when thou hast done so, | |
106 | Tell me not, friar, that thou hear'st of this, | |
107 | O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, | |
108 | Give me, give me! O, tell not me of fear! | |
109 | Love give me strength! and strength shall help afford. | |
110 | Where I have learn'd me to repent the sin | |
111 | I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell; | |
112 | Nurse, will you go with me into my closet, | |
113 | Ay, those attires are best: but, gentle nurse, | |
114 | No, madam; we have cull'd such necessaries | |
115 | Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. | |
116 | O comfortable friar! where is my lord? | |
117 | Go, get thee hence, for I will not away. | |
118 | Yea, noise? then I'll be brief. O happy dagger! | |