Romeo and Juliet is one of the greatest pieces of literature of all time. The tragedy that was written by William Shakespeare tells the story of two young lovers who struggle against their feuding families. If you love Shakespeare’s tragic romance, you’ll definitely like our collection of romantic Romeo and Juliet quotes. If you love reading, be also sure have a look at our collection of wonderful reading quotes.
Widely considered to be Shakespeare’s most frequently performed play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a masterpiece of world literature. It tells the story of two star-crossed, young lovers who defied their feuding families with their love for each other.
“And yet I wish but for the thing I have;
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.”
Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is filled with beautiful poetry, intrigue, romance, comedy, and heartfelt tragedy. Reading the story of the romance between the two young lovers is wonderfully beautiful and heart-breaking at the same time.
Enjoy our collection of romantic, tragic, and truly beautiful Romeo and Juliet quotes.
Even though the story is centered around the youngster’s love story, the subplot conveys important messages about the destructiveness of revenge and the tragedy of fate. Interestingly enough, Shakespeare ascribed his characters different poetic forms, depending on their personality and character development. In doing so, the dramatic structure of the tragedy develops not only depth but also heightened tension.
110 Poetic Romeo and Juliet Quotes
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is William Shakespeare’s first masterpiece. He would go on to write even greater poems and tragedies, but none that was quite as distinguished as Romeo and Juliet. In the following collection of Romeo and Juliet quotes, we’ve selected the greatest and the most famous lines of the popular tragedy.
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1.
“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.”
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2.
“Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.”
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3.
“Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return.”
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4.
“Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it.”
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5.
“If you frustrate love, you get an ocean made out of lovers’ tears.”
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6.
“The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately.”
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7.
“There’s an old saying that applies to me: you can’t lose a game if you don’t play the game.”
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8.
“For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss.”
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9.
“It is my soul that calls upon my name;
How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night,
like softest music to attending ears!”
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10.
“One fire burns out another’s burning,
One pain is lessen’d by another’s anguish.”
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11.
“See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.
O, that I were a glove upon that hand
That I might touch that cheek!”
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12.
“Under loves heavy burden do I sink.”
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13.
“I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain.”
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14.
“It is my lady! O, it is my love! O, that she knew she were!”
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15.
“Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of divinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest – A dammed saint, an honorable villain!”
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16.
“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder
Which, as they kiss, consume”
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17.
“What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”
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18.
“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is!”
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19.
“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
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20.
“That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
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21.
“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”
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22.
“Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.”
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23.
“O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;
They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.”
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24.
“Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.”
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25.
“My only love sprung from my only hate.”
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26.
“I am fortune’s fool!”
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27.
“These violent delights have violent ends.”
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28.
“Well, in that hit you miss. She’ll not be hit
With Cupid’s arrow. She hath Dian’s wit,
And, in strong proof of chastity well armed,
From Love’s weak childish bow she lives uncharmed.”
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29.
“Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And vice sometime by action dignified.”
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30.
“O teach me how I should forget to think.”
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These Romeo and Juliet quotes are so poetically romantic
31.
“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume.”
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32.
“Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?”
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33.
“Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”
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34.
“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.”
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35.
“Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,
Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!”
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36.
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”
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37.
“How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath
To say to me that thou art out of breath?”
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38.
“It’s easy for someone to joke about scars if they’ve never been cut.”
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39.
“O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art
As glorious to this night, being o’er my head
As is a winged messenger of heaven”
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40.
“My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.”
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41.
“Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.”
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42.
“Turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and forget about the garish sun.”
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43.
“If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down.”
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44.
“Love moderately. Long love doth so.
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
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45.
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs;
Being purg’d, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes;
Being vex’d, a sea nourish’d with lovers’ tears;
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.”
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46.
“Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Which is as thin of substance as the air,
And more inconstant than the wind, who woos.”
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47.
“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.”
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48.
“Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief.”
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49.
“Then move not, while my prayer’s effect I take.
Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.”
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50.
“You are a lover. Borrow Cupid’s wings
and soar with them above a common bound.”
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51.
“I defy you, stars.”
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52.
“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 pardon’d, and some punished:
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
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53.
“I must be gone and live, or stay and die.”
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54.
“Here’s what love is: a smoke made out of lovers’ sighs. When the smoke clears, love is a fire burning in your lover’s eyes.”
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55.
“Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss”
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56.
“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”
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57.
“These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder.”
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58.
“Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.”
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59.
“One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun
Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun.”
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60.
“Not proud you have, but thankful that you have. Proud can I never be of what I hate, but thankful even for hate that is meant love.”
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61.
“I dreamt my lady came and found me dead
And breathed such life with kisses in my lips
That I revived and was an emperor.”
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62.
“Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.”
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63.
“I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly.”
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64.
“He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.”
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65.
“Here will I set up my everlasting rest,
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars”
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66.
“This love feel I, that feel no love in this.”
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67.
“I will make thee think thy swan a crow.”
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68.
“It were a grief so brief to part with thee.
Farewell.”
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69.
“Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.”
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70.
“And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.”
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The following Romeo and Juliet quote is quite profound
71.
“I take thee at thy word:
Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo.”
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72.
“Some grief shows much of love,
But much of grief shows still some want of wit.”
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73.
“They are but beggars that can count their worth.”
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74.
“Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff;
Life and these lips have long been separated:
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”
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75.
“I have a soul of lead
So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.”
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76.
“Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,
And I am proof against their enmity.”
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77.
“These times of woe afford no time to woo.”
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78.
“There is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls,
Doing more murder in this loathsome world,
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.”
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79.
“Death, that hath suck’d the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.”
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80.
“Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear,
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.”
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81.
“What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night,
So stumblest on my counsel?”
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82.
“The world is not thy friend, nor the world’s law.”
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83.
“Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.”
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84.
“How much salt water thrown away in waste
To season love, that of it doth not taste.”
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85.
“Unless philosophy can make a Juliet,
Displant a town, reverse a prince’s doom,
It helps not, it prevails not.”
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86.
“Ready to go but never to return.”
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87.
“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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88.
“The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.”
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89.
“What must be shall be.”
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90.
“Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries that
Thou hast done to me.
Therefore turn and draw.”
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91.
“Can I go forward when my heart is here?
Turn back, dull earth, and find thy center out.”
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92.
“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.”
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93.
“For you and I are past our dancing days”
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94.
“Amen, amen! but come what sorrow can,
It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
That one short minute gives me in her sight:
Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
Then love-devouring death do what he dare;
It is enough I may but call her mine.”
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95.
“Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.”
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96.
“Enough no more; Tis not so sweet now as it was before.”
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97.
“Have I thought long to see this morning’s face,
And doth it give me such a sight as this?”
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98.
“There on the ground, with his own tears made drunk.”
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99.
“Oh, God! I have an ill-divining soul!”
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100.
“Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days.”
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101.
“Did my heart love ’til now?”
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102.
“If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.”
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103.
“Sometimes we punish ourselves the most.”
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104.
“O shut the door! and when thou hast done so,
Come weep with me; past hope, past cure, past help!”
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105.
“What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?”
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106.
“To early seen unknown… and known to late.”
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107.
“Thus with a kiss I die.”
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108.
“He that hath the steerage of my course,
Direct my sail.”
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109.
“A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.”
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110.
“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
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