Top Quotes from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is one of the greatest love stories ever written, a timeless tale where passion, fate, and sacrifice intertwine to touch the deepest corners of the human heart. In this blog, we bring together the Top Quotes from Romeo and Juliet that continue to inspire readers across generations. These carefully selected Romeo and Juliet Quotes beautifully capture the intensity of young love, the pain of separation, and the power of destiny. From tender confessions to unforgettable declarations, Romeo and Juliet Love Quotes remain some of the most moving expressions of romance in world literature.
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Top Quotes from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.”
― William Shakespeare
“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man
What is in a name?
That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,
So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title,
Romeo, Doth thy name!
And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.”
― William Shakespeare
“Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
“If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.Juliet:
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss.Romeo:
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?Juliet:
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.Romeo:
O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;
They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.Juliet:
Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake.Romeo:
Then move not, while my prayer’s effect I take.
Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.Juliet:
Then have my lips the sin that they have took.Romeo:
Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again.Juliet:
You kiss by the book.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night;
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…”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
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,
That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.
Be not her maid since she is envious.
Her vestal livery is but sick and green,
And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off!
It is my lady. Oh, it is my love.
Oh, that she knew she were!
She speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that?
Her eye discourses. I will answer it.—
I am too bold. ‘Tis not to me she speaks.
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars
As daylight doth a lamp. Her eye in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.
Oh, that I were a glove upon that hand
That I might touch that cheek!”
― William Shakespeare
“Peace? I hate the word as I hate hell and all Montagues.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“It’s awful, telling it like this, isn’t it? As though we didn’t know the ending. As though it could have another ending. It’s like watching Romeo drink poison. Every time you see it you get fooled into thinking his girlfriend might wake up and stop him. Every single time you see it you want to shout, ‘You stupid ass, just wait a minute,’ and she’ll open her eyes! ‘Oi, you, you twat, open your eyes, wake up! Don’t die this time!’ But they always do.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity
“This is why my betrayal was so terrible. Because you believed me incapable of hurting you, and yet I did.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights
“What’s in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell.”
― The Reduced Shakespeare Company, The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr
“Out of her favour, where I am in love.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Well, in that hit you miss. She’ll not be hit
With Cupid’s arrow. She hath Dian’s wit,
And, in strong proff of chastity well armed,
From Love’s weak childish bow she lives uncharmed.
She will not stay the siege of loving terms,
Nor bide th’ encounter of assailing eyes,
Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold.
O, she is rich in beauty; only poor
That, when she dies, with dies her store.
Act 1,Scene 1, lines 180-197”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. … Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“There are a million things in this world that can end you, that can in one second obliterate the life you work so hard to keep alive. Our lives are structured around not dying. Eating, sleeping, looking both ways before you cross the street. It’s all, all of it, to keep us safe from the thing that we know is going to get us anyway. It doesn’t even make sense, if you think about it. It’s the world’s biggest joke. Our entire lives are set up around not dying, knowing all the while that it’s the one thing we can’t avoid.”
― Rebecca Serle, When You Were Mine
“Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.”
― Anne Fortier, Juliet
“Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,
And I am proof against their enmity.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“It is my soul that calls upon my name;
How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night,
like softest music to attending ears!
-Romeo”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“He is Romeo, and he is heartbroken. Every word is wistful. When he says, ‘O, teach me how I should forget to think!’ I, for the first time, see what the big deal is about Shakespeare.”
― Nina LaCour, Hold Still
“what ho, apothecary!”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
“Affliction is enamoured of thy parts,
And thou art wedded to calamity.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married”
It is an honor that I dream not of”
― William Shakespeare
“Troy sighed with frustration. “Let me get this straight. We’re stuck in the story of Romeo and Juliet and we can’t get home without a magic charm from Shakespeare’s quill, which doesn’t exist in this world. However, we might be able to get home when the story ends, but if Romeo and Juliet don’t meet, then we don’t have a story. More important, we don’t have an ending.”
Friar Laurence tsk tsked. He placed his speckled hand on Troy’s forehead. “Bless you, my son, but a fever has muddled your mind.”
― Suzanne Selfors, Saving Juliet
“(I think I fell in love with you when you were shouting at Romeo and Juliet, ‘Don’t touch each other!’)”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea
“In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond…”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Hath Romeo slain himself? Say thou but ay,
And that bare vowel ay shall poison more
Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice.
I am not I,if there be such an ay,
Or those eyes shut,that make thee answer ay:
If he be slain say ay,or if not,no:
Brief sounds,determine of my weal or woe.”
― Shakespeare
“When I was twelve, my sixth-grade English class went on a field trip to see Franco Zeffirelli’s film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. From that moment forward I dreamed that someday I’d meet my own Juliet. I’d marry her and I would love her with the same passion and intensity as Romeo. The fact
that their marriage lasted fewer than three days before they both were dead
didn’t seem to affect my fantasy. Even if they had lived, I don’t think their
relationship could have survived. Let’s face it, being that emotionally aflame, sexually charged, and transcendentally eloquent every single second can really start to grate on a person’s nerves. However, if I could find someone to love just a fraction of the way that Montague loved his Capulet, then marrying her would be worth it.”
― Annabelle Gurwitch, You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story
“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