Romeo and Juliet/Quotes: Difference between revisions

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* '''Two households, both alike in dignity,<br>In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,<br>From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,<Br>Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.<br>From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,<br>A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;<br>Whose misadventured piteous overthrows,<br>Doth with their death bury their parents' strife.'''<br>The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,<br>And the continuance of their parents' rage,<BR>Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,<br>Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;<br>'''The which if you with patient ears attend,<br>What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.'''

 

* '''Sampson''': My naked weapon is out. Quarrel, I will back thee.<br>'''Gregory''': How! turn thy back and run?<br>'''Sampson''': Fear me not.<br>'''Gregory''': No, marry; I fear thee!

** Scene i

** '''Juliet,''' scene v

 

* This cannot anger him: 'twould anger him <br>'''To raise a spirit in his mistress' circle <br>Of some strange nature, letting it there stand <br>Till she had laid it and conjured it down;''' <br>That were some spite: my invocation <br>Is fair and honest, and in his mistress' name <br>I conjure only to raise up him.

**'''Mercutio,''' scene i

** '''Friar Laurence''' to Romeo, scene iii

 

* '''Benvolio''': I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire:<br>The day is hot, the Capulets abroad,<br>And, if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl;<br>For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.<br>'''Mercutio''': Thou art like one of those fellows that when he<br>enters the confines of a tavern claps me his sword<br>upon the table and says 'God send me no need of<br>thee!' and by the operation of the second cup draws<br>it on the drawer, when indeed there is no need.<br>'''Benvolio''': Am I like such a fellow?<br>'''Mercutio''': Come, come, thou art as hot a Jack in thy mood as<br>any in Italy, and as soon moved to be moody, and as<br>soon moody to be moved.

** Scene i

** '''Juliet,''' scene v

 

* Tell me not, friar, that thou hear'st of this,<br>Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it:<br>If, in thy wisdom, thou canst give no help,<br>Do thou but call my resolution wise,<br>And with this knife I'll help it presently.<br>God join'd my heart and Romeo's, thou our hands;<br>And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo seal'd,<br>Shall be the label to another deed,<br>Or my true heart with treacherous revolt<br>Turn to another, this shall slay them both:<br>Therefore, out of thy long-experienc'd time,<br>Give me some present counsel; or behold,<br>'Twixt my extremes and me, this bloody knife<br>Shall play the umpire; arbitrating that<br>Which the commission of thy years and art<br>Could to no issue of true honour bring.<br>Be not so long to speak; I long to die,<br>If what thou speak'st speak not of remedy.

** '''Juliet,''' scene i

** '''Nurse,''' scene v

 

* There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls,<br>Doing more murder in this loathsome world<br>Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.

** '''Romeo,''' scene i

** '''Prince,''' scene iii