Top 76 Juliet Shakespeare Quotes
#1. Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.
William Shakespeare
#7. Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven and may look on her, But Romeo may not.
William Shakespeare
#11. O shut the door! and when thou hast done so,
Come weep with me; past hope, past cure, past help!
William Shakespeare
#17. I have been right, Basil, haven't I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare's plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.
Oscar Wilde
#19. They may seize
On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand
And steal immortal blessing from her lips,
Who, even in pure and vestal modesty,
Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.
William Shakespeare
#20. 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
#21. Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.
Raquel Cepeda
#22. 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
#23. Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy
Be heaped like mine, and that thy skill be more
To blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath
This neighbours air, and let rich music's tongue
Unfold the imagined happiness that both
Receive in either by this dear encounter.
William Shakespeare
#25. Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed 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 ...
William Shakespeare
#26. Unless philosophy can make a Juliet,
Displant a town, reverse a prince's doom,
It helps not, it prevails not.
William Shakespeare
#27. It is surely significant, for instance, that Romeo and Juliet was written at around the same time as The Merchant of Venice, a play that is preoccupied with the whole question of freedom of choice and its consequences.4
William Shakespeare
#29. In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon, tempting young Hamlet into murderous sin? Is Juliet dead or merely sleeping? Does Lear really stand at the edge of a great cliff? Or has the Fool deceived him to save his life?
Virginia Postrel
#31. 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
#32. Is there no pity sitting in the clouds
That sees into the bottom of my grief?
O sweet my mother, cast me not away!
Delay this marriage for a month, a week,
Or if you do not, make the bridal bed
In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.
William Shakespeare
#33. I've read all of Shakespeare and practiced a lot of lines ... I am going to do Juliet first. Don't laugh. What, with what makeup, costume and camera can do, my acting will create a Juliet who is 14, an innocent virgin.
Marilyn Monroe
#35. Affliction is enamoured of thy parts,
And thou art wedded to calamity.
William Shakespeare
#36. But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
William Shakespeare
#37. 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
#39. Benvolio- "By my head, here come the Capulets."
Mercutio- "By my heel, I care not.
William Shakespeare
#40. 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
#41. For I will raise her statue in pure gold;
That while Verona by that name is known,
There shall no figure at such rate be set
As that of true and faithful Juliet
William Shakespeare
#42. What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?
Brendan Fraser
#43. Among the accused was the author of Romeo and Juliet, one William Shakespeare.
Neil MacGregor
#44. 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
#45. One pain is lessened by another's anguish ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.
William Shakespeare
#46. If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
Joyce Brothers
#47. 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
#48. I think this [Gnomeo & Juliet] is the closest I ought to get to Shakespeare to be honest.
Matt Lucas
#49. Bear hence this body and attend our will. Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
William Shakespeare
#50. Blind is his love and best befits the dark- Benvolio (in Romeo and Juliet)
William Shakespeare
#51. [ ... ] my heart is wondrous light,
Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim'd.
William Shakespeare
#53. 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
#54. I grew up with Shakespeare, and there are so many wonderful teachings in those plays. The stories are all so unique and timeless. There is just so much learning in that body of work, and that is something I will always go back to.
Juliet Rylance
#55. These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Which, as they kiss, consume
William Shakespeare
#56. In my gap year between college and drama school, I taught art at a hospice and worked at a little coffee shop across the street from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London when everything around it was still a construction zone.
Juliet Rylance
#58. These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder.
William Shakespeare
#59. Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married
It is an honor that I dream not of
William Shakespeare
#61. Capulet! Montague!
See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love!
Prince
#62. 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
#63. JULIET: How art thou out of breath, when thou
hast breath
To say to me that thou art out of breath?
The excuse that thou dost make in this delay
Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse.
William Shakespeare
#64. 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
#65. 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
#68. Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries that
Thou hast done to me.
Therefore turn and draw.
William Shakespeare
#70. If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.
Gary D. Schmidt
#71. And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
William Shakespeare
#72. The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately.
William Shakespeare
#73. 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
#74. Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use,
Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.
William Shakespeare
#75. Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.
William Shakespeare
