Friar Lawrence

Marries them in secret hoping to end the feud. His plans go wrong every time.

The quotes

5 quotes by or about Friar Lawrence, in the order they happen.

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.

Friar Lawrence · Act 2, Scene 3 · time · youth

The Friar tells Romeo to slow down. Nobody in the play listens to this.

These violent delights have violent ends

Friar Lawrence · Act 2, Scene 6 · fate · love · death

Love this wild ends badly. The Friar says it and then marries them anyway.

There is no world without Verona walls

Romeo · Act 3, Scene 3 · youth · love

Banished from Verona is banished from life, Romeo says. The Friar tells him to stop being a child.

Art thou a man?

Friar Lawrence · Act 3, Scene 3 · youth

Romeo is on the floor crying. The Friar asks him to act like a man.

O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower

Juliet · Act 4, Scene 1 · love · death · youth

She would jump off a tower before marrying Paris. The Friar offers her a potion instead.