Home / Shakespeare Quotes / Shakespeare Quotes By Play / Romeo and Juliet QuotesRomeo and Juliet quotes are some of Shakespeare’s most popular, and the play is full of enduring quotes from start to grisly finish. In Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare gave the world such memorable quotes as “a r...
Romeo and Juliet (Act 2, Scene 2) “It is the very error of the moon, She comes more near the earth than she was wont, And makes men mad.” Othello (Act 5, Scene 2) “The moon’s an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches fromthe sun.” Timon of Athens (Act 4, Scene...
In Act I, scene i of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, we get introduced to the male lead named Romeo who is depressed. His friend approaches him after a big fight, and asks him why he is so sad. He responds by saying, “Well, that hit you miss. She’ll not be hit with Cupid’...
Names in general, she insists, ought to be separable from the things they name. Romeo never does change his name, and it wouldn't have done much good anyway. Whether or not he's essentially a Montague, and Juliet essentially a Capulet, their families will continue to act that way. "Tha...
(Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2) 23. ‘Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.’ (Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 5) 24. ‘Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.’ ...
Act 1 Scene 1 lines 234-35 "Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music." Oberon spe...
Read our selection of the very best quotes from Measure for Measure, along with speaker, act and scene. The play deals with the corruptive nature of power and the position and exploitation of women in society, and has many quotes along these themes that are commonly recognised to this day....
The Friar actually accompanies her in this scene, acting out the same behavior, attempting to keep Romeo from slipping into a deep depression at the thought of never seeing Juliet again. And When The Nurse is commanded by Lord Capulet to bring forth the news to Juliet that she must marry ...
And though that all at once”— You, good friends, this says the belly, mark me. — William Shakespeare [Told as a fable, this is the belly’s answer to a complaint from the other members of the body that it received all the food but did no work.] In Coriolanus (1623), Act 1,...
Who Is Benvolio? Who is Benvolio? Benvolio is an important character in Romeo and Juliet, a tragic play written by William Shakespeare. The play tells the story of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, teenagers from feuding families who fall in love, marry secretly, and ultimately die. ...