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One of the play’s major themes is the inseparability of good and evil, love and hate, poison and cure. Juliet’s death is tragic, but she also celebrates it as a way of escaping a life without her beloved. Important quotes by Juliet in Romeo and Juliet.
- Romeo
Romeo makes his first appearance a few moments after the...
- Mercutio
When Romeo makes the romantic gesture of breaking into the...
- Friar Lawrence
With these lines, the Friar leads Romeo and Juliet to their...
- Love
Significanly, that Juliet blames herself for seeing Romeo...
- Romeo
- “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life. “ (Chorus, Prologue)
- “Abraham: Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? Sampson: I do bite my thumb, sir.” (act 1, scene 1)
- “O teach me how I should forget to think!” Romeo (act 1 scene 1)
- “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes; Being vex’d a sea nourish’d with lovers’ tears.” Romeo (act 1 scene 1)
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Below, we introduce some of the best, most famous, and most illustrative quotations from Romeo and Juliet which help to explain why the plain remains so popular with readers and theatregoers.
- “But Soft, What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the Sun” – Romeo. This beautiful quote is from the balcony scene where Romeo tells this opening monologue for Juliet.
- “O Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore Art Thou Romeo?” – Juliet. In Scene 2 of Act 2, Juliet pours out her heart towards Romeo. She had met Romeo at the party of her engagement to Paris that her father had thrown.
- “One Fairer than My Love? The All-seeing Sun Ne’er saw her Match since First the World Begun.” - Romeo. Love is perceived to be a deep affection between two people.
- “Two of the Fairest Stars in all the Heaven, Having Some Business, Do Entreat her Eyes to Twinkle in their Spheres till they Return.” – Romeo. In Act 2, scene 2, Romeo hints that Juliet’s eyes are stars and this demonstrates his sincerity that he believes Juliet to be unreal and charmed because her eyes are stars.
- Act 2, Scene 1: Romeo in The Balcony Scene
- Act 2, Scene 1: "O Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore Art Thou, Romeo?"
- Act 1, Scene 4: The Queen Mab Speech
- Prologue, Act 3, and Act 5: Fate and Fortune
Romeo speaks these lines in the so-called balcony scene, when, hiding in the Capulet orchard after the feast, he sees Juliet leaning out of a high window (2.1.44–64). Though it is late at night, Juliet’s surpassing beauty makes Romeo imagine that she is the sun, transforming the darkness into daylight. Romeo likewise personifies the moon, calling i...
Juliet speaks these lines, perhaps the most famous in the play, in the balcony scene (2.1.74–78). Leaning out of her upstairs window, unaware that Romeo is below in the orchard, she asks why Romeo must be Romeo—why he must be a Montague, the son of her family’s greatest enemy (“wherefore” means “why,” not “where”; Juliet is not, as is often assumed...
Mercutio’s famous Queen Mab speech is important for the stunning quality of its poetry and for what it reveals about Mercutio’s character, but it also has some interesting thematic implications (1.4.53–59). Mercutio is trying to convince Romeo to set aside his lovesick melancholy over Rosaline and come along to the Capulet feast. When Romeo says th...
This trio of quotes advances the theme of fate as it plays out through the story: the first is spoken by the Chorus (Prologue.5–8), the second by Romeo after he kills Tybalt (3.1.131), and the third by Romeo upon learning of Juliet’s death (5.1.24). The Chorus’s remark that Romeo and Juliet are “star-crossed” and fated to “take their li[ves]” infor...
Romeo and Juliet is a classic Shakespearean play noted for its wide variety of notable and memorable quotes. On this list, you can find the quotes thematically while exploring individual quotes on their merit.
Hailed as one of the popular tragedies in classical literature, “Romeo and Juliet” is replete with memorable and timeless quotes that defy the confines of time and space. Due to its immense popularity, some of the riveting dialogues have been repeatedly referenced in various mainstream movies.
