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Romeo begins the play in love with Rosaline, but his language in these opening scenes shows us that his first love is less mature than the love he will develop for Juliet. This couplet combines two ideas that were already clichés in Shakespeare’s day: “love is blind” and “love will find a way.”
In Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare gave the world such memorable quotes as “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet“, “parting is such sweet sorrow”, “a plague on both your houses” and dozens more. Below is our pick of the very best quotes from Romeo and Juliet, spoken by a variety of primary and secondary characters in the play.
Like Romeo, Juliet sees love as a kind of freedom, “boundless” and “infinite.” The suggestion that Juliet will “give” her “bounty” to Romeo is the most explicitly erotic moment in their conversation so far.
Below, we introduce some of the best, most famous, and most illustrative quotations from Romeo and Juliet which help to explain why the plain remains so popular with readers and theatregoers. ‘Two households, both alike in dignity,
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Here, however, Romeo invokes light in a conventional way. Using the sun to describe his love, he fills light and daytime with a positive connotation. The inconsistency of the feelings Romeo associates with light and dark reinforces his youth. In certain moments, he is gloomy and prefers darkness.
Romeo and Juliet Quotes Showing 1-30 of 450. “These violent delights have violent ends. And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey. Is loathsome in his own deliciousness. And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
