Quotes from book

Romeo and Juliet

“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”

“Peace? I hate the word as I hate hell and all Montagues.”

“Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.”

“Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”

“Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.”

“It is my soul that calls upon my name;
How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night,
like softest music to attending ears!
-Romeo”

“Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,
And I am proof against their enmity.”

“Some grief shows much of love,
But much of grief shows still some want of wit.”

“for Mercutio's soul
Is but a little way above our heads,
Staying for thine to keep him company:
Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.”

“Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.”

“Parting is such sweet sorrow”

“I have a soul of lead
So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.”

“Can I go forward when my heart is here?”

“These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder.”

“I will make thee think thy swan a crow.”

“It were a grief so brief to part with thee.
Farewell.”

“Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff;
Life and these lips have long been separated:
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”

“Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.”

“I dreamt my lady came and found me dead
…………
And breathed such life with kisses in my lips
That I revived and was an emperor.”