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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.”
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is one of history's most famous love stories. But how do the play's love quotes hold up in the current day?
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.
One of the most frequently misunderstood quotations from Romeo and Juliet is Juliet’s question to her lover, in Act 2 Scene 2: not where are you Romeo, but why are you Romeo (i.e., a Montague, a member of an enemy family)?
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.
Find the quotes you need in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, sortable by theme, character, or scene. From the creators of SparkNotes.
Whereas light conventionally has a positive connotation, Romeo and Juliet usually prefer the darkness and associate their relationship with nighttime. 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.
