Top 100 Juliet And Romeo Quotes
#1. Juliet and Romeo die at the end,' I said.
'Do they really, though?' Monroe asked. 'I didn't know that that matters, when they sure did live. It's as simple as this, their secret. When you love somebody, you live, and you live goddamn well.
Mackenzie Herbert
#2. Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three hundred times ...
Marisha Pessl
#4. You can't fall in love with someone in a day."
"Romeo and Juliet did," Melanie says, tugging me toward the exit.
"Yeah, and then they killed themselves a few hours later. Thanks for the pep talk, Mel.
Chie Aleman
#5. We are all Romeos looking for our Juliet, but never finding her.
Rae Hachton
#6. I think by around the time I was about 8 or 9, the idea of filmmaking probably took hold. I made little Super 8 extravaganzas when I was a kid, the first being my own version of 'Romeo and Juliet,' and where I played all the parts except for Juliet.
Todd Haynes
#7. That's because it was Gage Stevenson, the epitome of my childhood and love life. That boy is irreplaceable.
Melissa M. Futrell
#9. But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
William Shakespeare
#10. Everyone has to die at some point, so the thought of passing on together while holding hands with my one true love has always sounded like an amazing fairy tale. It reminds me of the old Shakespearean play Romeo and Juliet, and of the powerful love they shared.
Shannon Duffy
#11. It is not realistic, maybe ... but art doesn't have to be realistic. Romeo and Juliet is not realistic, but it is true ... it shows the essence of falling in love.
Jan Harlan
#12. From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's cultural influence is virtually limitless.
Gordon Smith
#13. Very romantic," said Lillian, her voice now like the sound of snapping dry bones in her bare hands. "A middle-aged Romeo, and a Juliet who wants a divorce.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#14. If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.
Richard Le Gallienne
#15. Did Romeo and Juliet have a ... "relationship"? The term "relationship" ... betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.
Allan Bloom
#16. When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since.
Claire Bloom
#17. Look, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!
Montgomery Clift
#19. I thought Leonardo DiCaprio was amazing in Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo and Juliet.'
Brenton Thwaites
#20. Let houses burn, as long as you are together. Nothing else matters but love.
Rachel Caine
#22. Though what is 'Romeo and Juliet' after all?" he added after a short pause. "The beauty of poetry and holiness of love are simply the roses under which they try to hide its rottenness. Romeo is just the same sort of animal as all the rest of us.
Anton Chekhov
#24. The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world.
Helen Gardner
#26. Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.
William Shakespeare
#27. And in our dark days, with so many threatening clouds on the horizon, he concluded, we puff up a story like this to drug people, to distract their
attention from the serious problems and
divert them with a Romeo-and-Juliet
story, one scripted, however, by a soap opera writer.
Andrea Camilleri
#28. A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.
Mason Cooley
#29. Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.
Raquel Cepeda
#30. He is Romeo, and he is heartbroken. Every word is wistful. When he says, 'O, teach me how I should forget to think!' I, for the first time, see what the big deal is about Shakespeare.
Nina LaCour
#31. I will find you another long-forgotten Queen Mab poem in no time. Depend on it. I refuse to let Cody or anyone else know more about English Literature than me. So calm yourself, Elfish, and let an expert take over.
Martin Millar
#32. If someone told me at the beginning of that summer that I would come face-to-face with death because of a Romeo and Juliet romance, I would never have believed it. But it wasn't like that summer went at all like I planned in the first place.
Magan Vernon
#33. I feel that for the story of 'Romeo and Juliet' to be impactful, it has to be believable, and there has to be a certain level of chemistry between the two characters.
Hailee Steinfeld
#34. If this was love, it felt different than she'd imagined it would, walking a thin line between passion and terror. It was Romeo and Juliet. It was Wuthering Heights. And Val was left petrified from the boiling intensity of it.
Nenia Campbell
#35. I don't remember Romeo being this pushy with Juliet!".....He arched his eyebrows meaningfully. "And look at how that worked out for them. My way is better - less death, more orgasms.
Tillie Cole
#36. The best kiss in nature is not between Romeo and Juliet, but it is between a dying autumn leaf and a shiny water drop!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#37. Sometimes the leads are equally balanced, like in 'Romeo and Juliet,' but sometimes they're just not.
Ailyn Perez
#38. I think Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet' would be my favorite role. I've never played it, but I would love to do it.
Rocky Carroll
#39. I'm fucked.
We're fucked. Together. Like Romeo and Juliet, only we get to be in a sequel.
Christopher Moore
#40. 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.
William Shakespeare
#42. For never was a truer story of love conquering woe than this of Molly Juliet and her Romeo.
Tillie Cole
#43. It was like Romeo and Juliet with those two."
"Romeo and Juliet was a tragedy.
Michael Rowe
#44. Peter and Jessie were like Romeo and Juliet. Have you ever seen that old movie? Starring Leonardo Dicaprio?
Adele Griffin
#45. 'Romeo And Juliet' is the classic love story. When two lovers are separated and trying to get back to one another, that's fiercely romantic and something you become glued to.
Saoirse Ronan
#46. There has to be some way this won't end in tragedy. Why can't Romeo and Juliet live happily ever after? It's as if the universe won't abide such a strong connection in such a disconnected world, as if our connection defies the natural order.
Kitty Thomas
#47. Walter looked like he could chew nails and still come back for a helping of chain link fence. "Why can't Romeo and Juliet meet in a garden like in Downton Abbey?" Romeo asked. "I mean who meets on a balcony? How real is that?
Suzanne M. Trauth
#48. He felt a bit like Romeo to her Juliet, minus the feuding families and poison.
And with pigeons.
Julia Quinn
#49. I take the subway all the time here in New York. I love people watching and trying to figure out everybody's background, especially teenagers - they're so uninhibited when they display puppy love. I concoct stories in my mind: 'Are you guys like Romeo and Juliet?'
Sherri Shepherd
#50. Why Edward Bonshaw had been so attached to it? "A glooming peace this morning with it brings" - well, yes, and why would such darkness ever depart? Who can happily think of what else happened to Juliet and her Romeo, and not dwell on what happened to them at the end of their story?
John Irving
#51. After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.
Clive Owen
#52. Cocky."
"I won't deny it. Which is why this is weird for me," Romeo's voice lowered as he leaned into her. His warm breath fanned against her neck, making Jules shiver as he said, "You're so beautiful you make me feel humble. Being with you scares me, and I'm not real sure what to do about it.
Kele Moon
#53. It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.
Tracy Keenan Wynn
#54. I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people (Romeo and Juliet) took a chance and they did it. We don't have the balls that Romeo did.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#55. If you have nothing in common with the person you are dating and his parents hate you and your friends hate him, this is not romantic; it's a bad idea.
Amy E. Spiegel
#56. We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining.
Emile Hirsch
#57. What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?
Brendan Fraser
#58. When I step out onto the ice to compete 'Romeo and Juliet,' I don't feel like a fighter. I feel very nervous, and it's very difficult for me to get into the mindset for it.
Ashley Wagner
#59. Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums ... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid, no work of the imagination is truly apolitical, because the world and our hopes for it are always part of our stories.
John Green
#60. They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.
Stephen King
#61. Among the accused was the author of Romeo and Juliet, one William Shakespeare.
Neil MacGregor
#62. I swear, Six is going to kill us, or worse, maybe she's about to be killed by a swarm of Mogs and we're here lying in the grass about to go through a scene from Romeo and Juliet.
Pittacus Lore
#63. Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.
Anne Fortier
#64. To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.)
William Shakespeare
#65. As it was, they had never even managed a successful first date before their romance had gone the way of Romeo and Juliet's
except that Romeo and Juliet didn't wake up the next day, leave the crypt and say, Now what?
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#66. As for my family, Ren was Ren and his family was his family and mine were who they were and usually this would be a Romeo and Juliet type of scenario. But I wasn't big on Shakespeare so my family was also just going to have to deal.
Kristen Ashley
#67. She will fight for light, and he for dark,
Battling through the ages for loves sweet spark.
Wherever two souls adore truly, you will find them, lo,
The brave Juliet and the wicked Romeo.
Stacey Jay
#68. When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called Maggie Shephard-King. She inspired me to audition for the role of Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'
Brenton Thwaites
#69. [ ... ] my heart is wondrous light,
Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim'd.
William Shakespeare
#71. Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,
And I am proof against their enmity.
William Shakespeare
#72. Am I worthy of Juliet, I wondered, worthy as my father was of my mother?
Robin Maxwell
#74. Within the infant rind of this weak flower Poison hath residence and medicine power' Romeo and Juliet, II, iii
Val McDermid
#75. Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries that
Thou hast done to me.
Therefore turn and draw.
William Shakespeare
#76. What you're about to read is based on true events. It will make you laugh. It will make you cry. And it will break your heart. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Melissa M. Futrell
#77. And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story.
Julie Taymor
#79. Love is simply too strong a word to be of much use in ordinary, day-to-day relationships. Love is for Romeo and Juliet.
Kurt Vonnegut
#81. I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.
Ben Kingsley
#82. The Soviets made me change Romeo and Juliet so that it would have a happy ending, a barbarism, because living people can dance, but the dead cannot dance lying down.
Sergey Prokofiev
#83. I wish I could hold the play (Romeo and Juliet) in my hands right now. I want to read it. I want to know that someone else has felt what I feel, even if that person never existed outside one man's imagination.
Kitty Thomas
#84. I was in Siena and decided I wanted to write a story set there. Then I discovered that the original story of Romeo and Juliet was set in Siena. It occurred to me that this was too much of a gift - I had to do it. That's how I ended up writing a parallel story to Romeo and Juliet.
Anne Fortier
#86. All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.
Ray Winstone
#87. If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he plagiarized that from an Italian play.
Lloyd Kaufman
#88. He turned to me. "Call me later?"
"Yes."
"Promise?"
"I promise," I said.
And then he leaned down and kissed me. And this time it wasn't Romeo kissing Juliet. It was Quinn kissing Delia. And that was even better.
Jennifer Sturman
#90. These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder.
William Shakespeare
#91. When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.
Hailee Steinfeld
#92. And you're not Juliet, dicking around with Romeo like she's got piss for brains and no respect for her house. You're loyal. To your dad, if not to the Titans.
Kati Wilde
#93. The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately.
William Shakespeare
#94. Our story was just like Romeo and Juliet. We were just two kids falling in love. But we didn't have that old Shakespearean insta-kind-of-love. Ours had a lot more to it.
Melissa M. Futrell
#95. He knew her now. She was the weird girl in the class above him, who dyed her hair pink and always wore a lot of pentragrams and crystals. Right now she was also wearing giant chandelier earings and a violent pink T-Shirt that bore the words ROMEO AND JULIET WOULDN'T HAVE LASTED.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#96. a leading copyright commentator concludes - with good reason - that if Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet were protected by copyright today, the Broadway musical West Side Story might well be found to infringe.
Neil Weinstock Netanel
#97. This is the most complicated relationship since Romeo and Juliet," she complained. "You're
both hopeless. I mean, what is the big problem? You love him. He adores you. You get together and live happily ever after. Any
questions? No, of course not. That'll be ten dollars, thank you.
John Marsden
#98. When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.
Emma Watson
#99. ...we had bypassed Romeo and Juliet and gone straight to Macbeth.
Michael Brooks
#100. I think when I was 12, when, like, 'Titanic' and 'Romeo + Juliet' came out, my friends and I made our own Leonardo DiCaprio fan club. I definitely had a thing for him.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
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