Romeo Quotes

“Romeo: I dreamt a dream tonight. Mercutio: And so did I. Romeo: Well, what was yours? Mercutio: That dreamers often lie. Romeo: In bed asleep while they do dream things true.”

If I may trust the flattering eye of sleep,

My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.

Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

I dreamt my lady came and found me dead,—

And breath’d such life with kisses in my lips,

Ah me, how sweet is love itself possess’d,When but love’s shadows are so rich in joy.

Romeo. Is it even so? Then I defy you, stars!

Leave me, and do the thing I bid thee do.

Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight.

Sharp misery had worn him to the bones; And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuff’d, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes;

Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness, And fear’st to die?

Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes, Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back. The world is not thy friend, nor the world’s law;

There is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls,

This love feel I, that feel no love in this.

JULIET. Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?

Deny thy father and refuse thy name;

Why such is love’s transgression.

This love that thou hast shown Doth add more grief to too much of mine own.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purg’d, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes;

Being purg’d, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes;Being vex’d, a sea nourish’d with lovers’ tears:

From love’s weak childish bow she lives uncharm’d.

I’ll go along, no such sight to be shown, But to rejoice in splendour of my own.

But love thee better than thou canst devise till thou shalt know the reason of my love.

Thy beauty hath made me effeminate and in my temper soten’d valour’s steel.

Heaven is here Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog, And little mouse, every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven and may look on her, But Romeo may not.

They are free men but I am banished.

Stand up, stand up; stand, and you be a man. For Juliet’s sake, for her sake, rise and stand.

O, I am fortune’s fool!

Romeo he cries aloud, ‘Hold, friends! Friends, part!’

These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old.

If I may trust the flattering eye of sleep, my dream presage some joyful news at hand.

Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

The world is not thy friend, nor the world’s law; The world affords no law to make thee rich; Then be not poor, but break it and take this.

The time and my intents are savage-wild; More fierce and more inexorable far than empty tigers or the roaring sea.

By heaven I love thee better than myself;

For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes this vault a feasting presence full of light. Death, lie thou there, buy a dead man interr’d.

Thus with a kiss I die.

Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet, and she, there dead, that Romeo’s faithful wife.

That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love!