Quotes from book

Romeo and Juliet

“You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings
and soar with them above a common bound.”

“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)”

“My only love sprung from my only hate.”

“There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)”

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”

“These violent delights have violent ends.”

“If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down.”

“See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.
O, that I were a glove upon that hand
That I might touch that cheek!”

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose,
By any other name would smell as sweet.”

“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”

“O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circle orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”

“Give me my sin again.”

“I must be gone and live, or stay and die.”

“Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace!
And, lips, oh you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death!”

“We burn daylight.”

“Under loves heavy burden do I sink.
--Romeo”

“I defy you, stars.”

“Women may fall when there's no strength in men.”

“Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night;
Give me my Romeo; and, when I shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night…”