Famous Lines:




"A pair of star-crossed lovers..."   [Chorus -  Act I, Prologue, line 6]




"I will make thee think thy swan a crow..."  [Benvolio, I, i, 172-73]




"Oh, then I see that Queen Mab has been with you;


She is the fairies' midwife..."   [Mercutio,  I, iv, 57-99]




"O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!


It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night


Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear..."  [Romeo, I, v, 45-54]




"You kiss by the book."   [Juliet, I,v, 116]




"My only love, sprung from my only hate!


Too early seen, unknown, and known too late!"  [Juliet, I, v, 147-48]




"He jests at scars that never felt a wound."  [Romeo,  II, ii, 1]




"But soft - What light through yonder window breaks?"   [Romeo, II, ii, 2]




"O Romeo, Romeo!  Wherefore art thou Romeo?"  [Juliet, II, ii, 35]




"That which we call a rose


 by any other name would smell as sweet."  [Juliet, II, ii, 45-6]




"O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,


That monthly changes in her circled orb,


Lest that thy love prove likewise variable."   [Juliet, II, ii, 114-16]




"How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night,


Like softest music to attending ears!"   [Romeo,  II, ii,  177-78]




"Good night, good night.  Parting is such sweet sorrow,


That I shall say goodnight till it be morrow."  [Juliet,  II,  ii,  200-01]




"A plague o' both your houses!"   [Mercutio,  III,  i, 90]




"Tis not so deep as a well,


Nor so wode as a church door;


But 'tis enough,  'twill serve."   [Mercutio,   III,  i,  96-97]