50 Best Romeo & Juliet Quotes (Love, Conflict, Fate, Stars, Death) (2024)

These most timeless and famous Romeo and Juliet quotes are worthy of every re-read and cover all of the book’s main themes about love, fate, stars, conflict, and death.

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About Love

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep. The more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.”

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

“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.”

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

“Parting is such sweet sorrow.”

“With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls, For stony limits cannot hold love out.”

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

“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun.”

“One fairer than my love? the all-seeing sun Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun.”

“This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.”

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

“Under love’s heavy burden do I sink.”

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

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

“If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.”

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

“Love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”

“This bud of love by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.”

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

“Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties.”

“Young men’s love then lies Not truly in their hearts but in their eyes.”

“For stony limits cannot hold love out, And what love can do that dares love attempt.”

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

“Do thou but close our hands with holy words, Then love-devouring death do what he dare; It is enough I may but call her mine.”

About Conflict

“Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.”

“What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word. As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.”

“A plague o’ both your houses!”

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

“My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.”

“Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.”

“Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.”

“All are punished.”

“These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die.”

About Fate

“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.”

“What must be shall be.”

“If he be married my grave is like to be my wedding bed.”

“O, I am Fortune’s fool!”

“Go wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”

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

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

About Stars

“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.”

“I fear too early, for my mind misgives; Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars,
Shall bitterly begin.”

“I defy you, stars.”

“Give me my Romeo; and, when he 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 And pay no worship to the garish sun.”

“O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!”

About Death

“These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume.”

“O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!”

“Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.”

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

“Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”

“Thus with a kiss I die.”