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Romeo
A Montague. Falls in love fast and hard. Kills Tybalt in anger. Dies beside Juliet.
The quotes
18 quotes by or about Romeo, 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.
Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, Too rude, too boisterous; and it pricks like thorn.
Romeo · Act 1, Scene 4 · love
Before he meets Juliet, Romeo thinks love hurts. He is talking about a girl who does not want 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.
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?
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.
O, I am fortune's fool!
Romeo · Act 3, Scene 1 · fate
Romeo has just killed Tybalt. He blames fate. He also did 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.
Romeo is banished
Nurse · Act 3, Scene 2 · fate · family
The Nurse brings the news. To Juliet it is worse than ten thousand dead Tybalts.
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.
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.
Then I defy you, stars!
Romeo · Act 5, Scene 1 · fate · death
He hears Juliet is dead. He will fight fate itself. He buys poison.
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.
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.
O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick.
Romeo · Act 5, Scene 3 · death
The poison works fast. He has time for one more line.
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