Romeo & Juliet: Key Quotations

Below is a list of all of the quotations we have covered organised by character and theme:

Love and Passion

1. Romeo: "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!"
2. Juliet: "My only love sprung from my only hate!"
3. Juliet: "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
4. Romeo: "Thus with a kiss I die."

Fate

5. Romeo: "I defy you, stars!"
6. Chorus: "A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life."
7. Juliet: "O God, I have an ill-divining soul!"
8. Romeo: "I am fortune's fool!"

Conflict and Violence

9. Tybalt: "What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee."
10. Mercutio: "A plague o' both your houses!"
11. Romeo: "Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him."
12. Lord Capulet: "My fingers itch."

Youth and Age

13. Juliet: "It is an honor that I dream not of."
14. Lord Capulet: "My child is yet a stranger in the world."
15. Romeo: "O, I am fortune's fool!"
16. Juliet: "Good father, I beseech you on my knees, hear me with patience but to speak a word."