Romeo + Juliet Movie Quotes
Romeo
[upon first sight of Juliet]
Did my heart love 'til now? Forswear its sight. For I never saw true beauty 'til this night.
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Juliet
Come, gentle night, come, loving black brow night, give me my Romeo. And when I 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. Oh, I have... *bought* the mansion of love, but not possessed it. And though I am sold and not yet enjoyed... Oh! Tedious is the day!
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Romeo
If I profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine, the gentle sin is this. My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
Juliet
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, which mannerly devotion shows in this. For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, and palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.
Romeo
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers, too?
Juliet
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
Romeo
Well, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do. They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
Juliet
Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.
Romeo
Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.
Juliet
Then have my lips the sin that they have took?
Romeo
Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.
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Romeo
I defy you, stars!
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Juliet
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.
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[first lines]
Anchorwoman
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. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life, whose misadventured piteous overthrows doth, with their death, bury their parents' strife. The fearful passage of their death-marked love and the continuance of their parents' rage, which, but their children's end, naught could remove, is now the two hours' traffic of our stage.
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Romeo
I dreamt a dream tonight.
Mercutio
And so did I.
Romeo
And what was yours?
Mercutio
That dreamers often lie.
Mercutio
O! Then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife, and comes in a shape no bigger than an agate-stone, on the fore-finger of an alderman, drawn with a little team of atomies, over men's noses as they lie asleep. Her chariot is an empty hazelnut. Her wagoner a small grey-coated gnat. And in this state, she gallops, night by night, through lovers' brains and then they dream of... love! O'er lawyers fingers who straight dream on fees. Sometimes she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, and then dreams he of cutting foreign throats. And then, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two and sleeps again.
[becoming more passionate]
Mercutio
This is the hag, when maids lie on their BACKS, that presses them! And learns them first to bear, making them women of good carriage! This is she! THIS IS SHE!
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[last lines]
Anchorwoman
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for sorrow will not show his head. Go hence and have more talk of these sad things. Some shall be pardoned, and some punished. For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
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Romeo
Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.
Mercutio
If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down.
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Father Laurence
[wedding Romeo and Juliet]
These violent delights have violent ends, and in there triumph die like fire and powder, which as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. Therefore, love moderately.
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[bites thumb]
Abra
Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
Sampson
I... I do bite my thumb, sir.
Abra
Do you bite your thumb at *us*, sir?
Gregory
NO!
Sampson
No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir!
Gregory
Do you quarrel, sir?
Abra
Quarrel, sir? No, sir!
Sampson
But if you do, sir, and for you, I serve as good a man as you!
Abra
No better?
Sampson
Uh... uh...
Sampson
Yes, sir, better!
Abra
You lie!
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Juliet
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name, or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet.
Romeo
Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?
Juliet
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy, thou art thyself though not a Montague. What is Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot, nor arm, nor face, nor any other part belonging to a man. Oh, what's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet; so Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, retain that dear perfection to which he owes without that title. Romeo, doff thy name! And for thy name, which is no part of thee, take all myself.
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Mercutio
A plague o' both your houses! They have made worms' meat of me.
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Juliet
Goodnight, goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.
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Romeo
Tempt not a desperate man!
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Tybalt
Peace? Peace. I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.
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Romeo
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Rise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon... who's already sick and pale with grief that thou have made her far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious. Her vestal livery is but sick and green, and none but fools do wear it.
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Father Laurence
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. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.
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Juliet
Romeo, what's here? Poison? Drunk all, and left no friendly drop to help me after?
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Romeo
I am Fortune's fool!
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Romeo
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
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Romeo
O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?
Juliet
What satisfaction canst thou have tonight?
Romeo
The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine.
Juliet
I gave thee mine before thou didst request it!
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Tybalt
Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford no better term than this: Thou art a villain.
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Romeo
Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace!
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Mercutio
Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
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Juliet
O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, who monthly changes in her circled orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
Romeo
What shall I swear by?
Juliet
Do not swear at all. Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, which is the god of my idolatry, and I'll believe thee.
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Romeo
Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.
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Romeo
The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law.
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Mercutio
If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down.
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Juliet
How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath to say to me that thou art out of breath? Is the news good or bad, answer to that.
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Romeo
Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
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Romeo
I am forgetful.
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Romeo
[refusing to fight]
Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting. Villain am I none. Therefore farewell. I see thou knowest me not.
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Romeo
Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight.
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Lady Capulet
Romeo slew Tybalt. Romeo must not live!
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Romeo
He that hath the steerage of my course, direct my sail!
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Gregory
A dog of the house of Capulet moves me!
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Lady Capulet
The valiant Paris seeks you for his love.
The Nurse
A man, young lady! Lady, such a man as all the world. Why, he's a man of wax!
Lady Capulet
Verona's summer hath not such a flower.
The Nurse
Nay, he's a flower. In faith, a very flower...
[to Juilet]
Lady Capulet
This night you shall behold him at our feast. Read over the volume of young Paris' face and find delight writ there with beauty's pen. This precious book of love, this unbound lover to beautify him, only lacks a cover. So shall you share all that he doth possess, by having him making yourself no less.
The Nurse
Nay, bigger. Women grow by men.
Lady Capulet
Speak briefly. Could you like of Paris' love?
Juliet
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.
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Captain Prince
[to Benvolio and Tybalt, who are fighting]
Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace, Throw your mistemper'd weapons to the ground! On pain of torture, from those bloody hands. Throw your mistemper'd weapons to the ground!
Captain Prince
[in his office]
Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word, By thee, old Capulet, and Montague, Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets, If ever you disturb our streets again, Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.
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Romeo
Be satisfied!
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Juliet
Not proud you have, but thankful you have. Proud can I never be of what I hate!
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Tybalt
Turn thee, Benvolio, and look upon thy death.
Benvolio
I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword.
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Benvolio
Part, fools! Put up your swords. You know not what you do!
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Romeo
I have night's cloak to hide me from their eyes, but thou love me, let them find me here. My life were better ended by their hate than death prorogued... wanting of thy love.
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Romeo
[Romeo has arrived at the church and walks to lie next to the unmoving Juliet on the alter]
My Love, my Life. Death is upon thy breath and yet not thy beauty. Thou are not conquered yet, this beauty is in thy lips and thy cheeks and deaths pale flag has not been conquered there. Dear Juliet, why are thou so fair? Should I believe that unsubstantial death is amorous, keeps thee here in dark to be his paramour? Here, oh here will I stay with thee; and never from this place of dim night depart again: here, here I will remain. Eyes look at last, let me take one last embrace, and lips only to the doors to breath and seal with a righteous kiss.
[he kisses her]
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Tybalt
Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford no better term than this. Thou art a villain!
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Juliet
What sayest thou? Hast though not a word of joy? Some comfort, Nurse.
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Captain Prince
All are punished!
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Juliet
You kiss by the book.
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Caroline Montague
Away from light steals home my heavy son and private in his chamber pens himself, Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out and makes himself an artificial night.
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Ted Montague
What noise is that?
Caroline Montague
Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe!
Ted Montague
Hold me not, let me go!
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Caroline Montague
O where is Romeo? Saw you him today?
[pointedly to Montague]
Caroline Montague
Right glad I am he was not at this fray.
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Juliet
[about to swallow concoction that will induce faked death]
What if this mixture do not work at all? Shall I be married then tomorrow morning?
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Benvolio
Why, Romeo, art thou mad?
Romeo
Not mad, but bound more than a mad man is. Shut up in prison, kept without my food, whipped and tormented.
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Benvolio
Soft, I will go along and if you leave me so you do me wrong.
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[aftermath of Tybalt's death]
Captain Prince
Let Romeo hence in haste! Else, when he is found that hour is his last! Romeo... is... BANISHED!
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[after Mercutio's death, Romeo is out for revenge on Tybalt]
Romeo
Mercutio's soul is but a little way above our heads! Staying for thrine to keep him company!
Tybalt
Thou wretched boy shalt with him hence!
Romeo
Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him! Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him! Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him!
[Romeo pushes Tybalt back, making him drop his gun. Romeo picks it up and starts screaming while firing it at Tybalt, killing him. Tybalt's body falls into the water, Romeo's tears starts shedding while thunder is heard. He looks at Tybalt's gun and drops it. The rain starts pouring]
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Dave Paris
Happily wed, my lady and my wife.
Juliet
That may be, sir, when I may be your wife.
Dave Paris
That maybe must be love, on Thursday next.
Juliet
What must be, must be.
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Romeo
[sees a news report on television of Benvolio's fight with Tybalt; disappointed] Oh me, what fray was here?
Benvolio
Cuz, I...
Romeo
Yet tell me not, for I've heard it all. Here's much to do with hate, but more with love. But why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything of nothing of first create. O heavy lightness, serious vanity, misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, feather of lead-
[Benvolio gives a scoffing chuckle]
Romeo
Does thou not laugh?
Benvolio
No, cuz. I'd rather weep.
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