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In Romeo and Juliet, love is a force which can—and does—move too fast. With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls, For stony limits cannot hold love out (2.2.) Juliet wants to know how Romeo got into the walled garden of the Capulet house: these lines are his response. For Romeo, true love is a liberating force.
Juliet, of course, will use this same image to describe her love for Romeo in her famous declaration “My bounty is as boundless as the sea.”. In Juliet’s quote, however, love is imagined as only increasing positively the more one shares it (i.e. “the more I give to thee,/The more I have, for both are infinite”).
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”. Juliet (act 2, scene 2) “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.”. Juliet (act 2, scene 2) “This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.”.
Apr 3, 2024 · Quotes About Love: The Romantic Balcony Scene and More by Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. “Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof.” (Act 1, Scene 1, Line 175) “Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with ...
- “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.
- “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.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.
- “Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.
- “thus with a kiss I die” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.
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Feb 2, 2021 · Romeo, perhaps Shakespeare’s most famous lover, also describes Love this way: “Alas that love, whose view is muffled still, / Should without eyes see pathways to his will” (Romeo and Juliet, 1.1). “Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.” – Venus and Adonis, line 799 “There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned.”
Romeo and Juliet Love Quotes. A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows. Do with their death bury their parents’ strife. – William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Prologue. There is a great deal of foreshadowing in opening Prologue to history’s greatest love story.
