Quotes from book

Romeo and Juliet

“Not proud you have, but thankful that you have. Proud can I never be of what I hate, but thankful even for hate that is meant love.”

“And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.”

“O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art
As glorious to this night, being o'er my head
As is a winged messenger of heaven”

“I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly.”

“It’s easy for someone to joke about scars if they’ve never been cut.”

“true apothecary thy drugs art quick”

“Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And vice sometime by action dignified.”

“Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”

“He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.”

“One pain is lessened by another’s anguish…. Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.”

“Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,
Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!

*It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it.”

“Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?
Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.”

“O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?”

“Educated men are so impressive!”

“Take it in what sense thou wilt.”

“Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.”

“Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.”

“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”

“Out of her favour, where I am in love.”