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Juliet
A Capulet, thirteen years old. Braver and clearer than everyone around her. She defies her family and dies by choice.
The quotes
27 quotes by or about Juliet, in the order they happen.
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life
Chorus · Prologue · fate · death · love
The stars are against them. The play tells you the ending before it starts.
Younger than she are happy mothers made.
Paris · Act 1, Scene 2 · youth · family
Paris wants to marry Juliet at thirteen. Girls younger are already mothers, he says.
This precious book of love, this unbound lover
Lady Capulet · Act 1, Scene 3 · love · family
Juliet's mother sells Paris to her like a beautiful book. Juliet has not even seen him.
Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.
Romeo · Act 1, Scene 5 · love · light and dark · youth
He sees Juliet and forgets Rosaline in one line. Love at first sight, and very fast.
O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
Romeo · Act 1, Scene 5 · light and dark · love
Juliet is brighter than the torches. Romeo talks about her as light all through the play.
My only love sprung from my only hate!
Juliet · Act 1, Scene 5 · love · hate · fate
Juliet finds out Romeo is a Montague. The one person she loves is from the one family she must hate.
My grave is like to be my wedding bed.
Juliet · Act 1, Scene 5 · death · love · fate
If she cannot marry him, she will die unmarried. It comes true in a way she does not mean.
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!
Romeo · Act 2, Scene 2 · light and dark · love
Juliet at her window. To Romeo she is the sun rising.
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Juliet · Act 2, Scene 2 · love · family
Not where are you. Why are you Romeo, a Montague? Why the one name I cannot love?
That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet
Juliet · Act 2, Scene 2 · love · family
A name is just a word. Romeo would be the same person with any other name.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep
Juliet · Act 2, Scene 2 · love
Her love has no bottom, like the sea. The more she gives, the more she has.
It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden
Juliet · Act 2, Scene 2 · love · time · youth
Even Juliet knows this is too fast. She says so. Then she goes ahead.
Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow
Juliet · Act 2, Scene 2 · love
Saying goodbye hurts and feels good at the same time.
Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds
Juliet · Act 3, Scene 2 · time · love · light and dark
Juliet tells the sun's horses to hurry so night will come and Romeo with it.
O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
Juliet · Act 3, Scene 2 · love · hate
Romeo killed her cousin. For a moment she sees him as a snake with a pretty face.
Come gentle night, come loving black-brow'd night, Give me my Romeo
Juliet · Act 3, Scene 2 · love · light and dark · death
Juliet wants the dark. Night is where love happens in this play, and where death does.
It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale
Romeo · Act 3, Scene 5 · time · light and dark · love
Morning has come. Romeo must leave or die. Juliet wants it to still be night.
O thinkest thou we shall ever meet again?
Juliet · Act 3, Scene 5 · fate · love
Their last time together alive. She asks the question the play has already answered.
Out, you green-sickness carrion! Out, you baggage! You tallow-face!
Capulet · Act 3, Scene 5 · family · youth
Juliet says no to marrying Paris. Her father screams insults at her.
I think it best you married with the County.
Nurse · Act 3, Scene 5 · family · love
The Nurse tells Juliet to forget Romeo and marry Paris. Juliet never trusts her again.
If all else fail, myself have power to die.
Juliet · Act 3, Scene 5 · death · fate
Alone now, Juliet says she can always kill herself. It is her plan of last resort.
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.
Romeo, Romeo, Romeo, here's drink! I drink to thee.
Juliet · Act 4, Scene 3 · love · death
She drinks the potion alone, with his name.
Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
Capulet · Act 4, Scene 5 · death · family
Her father finds her 'dead'. Frost on a flower. Too early.
Thus with a kiss I die.
Romeo · Act 5, Scene 3 · love · death
Romeo's last words. He drinks the poison beside Juliet, who is about to wake.
O happy dagger
Juliet · Act 5, Scene 3 · death · love
She wakes, finds him dead, and uses his dagger. Happy because it lets her follow him.
For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
Prince · Act 5, Scene 3 · death · love
The last lines. The saddest story there is.
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