Here is a list of the best phrases from Romeo and Juliet, the work of the important 16th century English playwright and writer William Shakespeare. This play tells the tragic story of two teenagers from Verona who belong to enemy families, the Montagues and the Capulets.
After meeting each other, they end up in love and marrying hastily. These, seeing their separation imminent due to various complications, prefer to commit suicide to "follow the other" in another life. You may also be interested in these phrases from William Shakespeare or these from romantic movies.
-It is useless looking for someone who does not want to be found. -Benvolio.
-Did I know what love is? Eyes, deny it, because until now I have never seen beauty. -Romeo.
-Why can love, blindfolded, impose its cravings, being blind? -Romeo.
-In men there is no loyalty, fidelity, or honesty. They are all perjured, deceitful, perverse and false. -Mistress.
"Ah, loyal apothecary, your drugs are fast!" With a kiss I die. -Romeo.
-My only enemy is your name. You are you, even if you are a Montague. -Juliet.
-Young love is only in the eyes, not in the heart. -Fray Lorenzo.
-Did I know what love is? Eyes swear not, because I have never seen such a beauty. -Romeo.
-The eyes were made to see: let them see. I'm not going to move for anyone's liking. -Mercutio.
-Too soon I have seen you without knowing you and too late I have met you. -Juliet.
-Love runs to love as the child runs away from the book and, like a child who goes to class, retires saddened -Romeo.
-If love is blind, it cannot hit. -Mercutio.
-The good little lasts. -Benvolio.
-Teach me to forget to think. -Romeo.
-Call me love and I will be baptized again: from today I will never be Romeo again. -Romeo.
-If love mistreats you, mistreat it yourself: if it sticks, you nail it and you sink it. -Mercutio.
-Death that stole the honey from your lips, has no power over your beauty. -Romeo.
-Death is the end of everything. -Mistress.
-He laughs at the wounds who has not suffered them. -Romeo.
-Who are you, that you hide in the night, that you break into my thoughts? -Juliet.
-I can't be proud of what I hate, but I am grateful that it was done out of love. -Juliet.
-The human soul has great mysteries to penetrate and great questions to debate when it is alone. -Romeo.
-Delicate love? No, it's tough, it's rough and aggressive, it's sharp like hawthorn -Romeo.
-Love is a cloud that floats supported by a sigh. -Romeo.
-Goose that squawks does not bite. -Romeo.
-Here lies Juliet, and her beauty turns the pantheon into a radiant audience chamber. -Romeo.
-For love there is no stone barrier, and, as love always tries to do its best, yours can do nothing against me. -Romeo.
-To go up to my bed you were the route, but I, virgin, must die a virgin widow. Come then. Come, mistress. I go to the nuptial bed, death take my virginity. -Juliet.
-With the breath of summer, this loving bud can give beautiful flower when we meet again. -Juliet.
-It is necessary that I receive news from you every hour of the day, because each hour of your absence represents more than one day. -Juliet.
-San Francisco help me! How many graves will I have stumbled into tonight? -Fray Lorenzo.
"Ah, she is my lady, she is my love!" I wish I know! She moves her lips, but she does not speak. It doesn't matter: their eyes speak; I will answer you. -Romeo.
-The feeling, if the ornament does not overwhelm it, prides itself on its truth, not on the ornament. -Juliet.
-My love was born from my only hatred! Very soon I have seen him and later I know him. Fatal birth of love will have been if I have to love the worst enemy. -Juliet.
"Ah, Romeo, Romeo!" Why are you Romeo? Deny your father and reject your name, or else swear your love to me and I will never be a Capulet. -Juliet.
-Do not swear. Although you are my joy, I am not happy with our agreement tonight: too abrupt, reckless, sudden, like lightning, which ceases before I can name it. -Juliet.
-The beloved that fills my chest is the beautiful daughter of the great Capulet. I have given her my soul, and she to me hers; we are already united, except what unites your sacrament. -Romeo.
-Eye, look for the last time! Arms, give your last hug! And lips, doors of breath, seal with a kiss a perpetual deal with greedy Death! -Romeo.
"Explode, my heart, my poor bankrupt!" Eyes, to prison, do not see freedom! Vile Mud, return to earth, perish and join Romeo on his deathbed! -Juliet.
-Come, gentle night, tender and gloomy night, give me my Romeo and, when I die, cut him into a thousand tiny stars. -Juliet.
"How sweet the voices of lovers sound at night, like soft music in the ear!" -Romeo.
-I am not a pilot, but, even if you were far away, on the most distant shore of the most remote seas, I would set sail after a treasure like you. -Romeo.
-If the fish lives in the sea, there is also excellence in everything beautiful that contains beauty: there are books with glory, because their beautiful background is well closed with a flourish. -Mrs Capulet.
"Romeo, Romeo, Mercutio is dead!" His gallant soul that, being so young, despised the earth, has ascended to heaven. -Benvolio.
-Ah, who was the glove of that hand for touching his cheek! -Romeo.
-My ears have barely sucked a hundred words from your mouth and I already know you by your voice. Are you not Romeo, and also Montague? -Juliet.
-What a snake soul in her flowery face! When did a dragon keep such a beautiful cave? Beautiful tyrant, angelic demon! Raven with dove feathers, wolfish lamb! -Juliet.
-What the devil are you to torment me? It's torture worthy of hell. Has Romeo been killed? -Juliet.
-His name is Romeo and he is a Montague: the only son of your great enemy. -Mistress.
-Let sleep in your eyes, peace in your mind! Who was sleep and peace, for such a rest! -Romeo.
"Lucky dagger, I'm going to sheathe you." Rust in me and let me die. -Juliet.
"What if, when I'm in the pantheon, I wake up before Romeo comes to rescue me?" I tremble to think about it. -Juliet.
-If with my unworthy hand I have desecrated your holy effigy, I only sin in that: my mouth, ashamed pilgrim, will soften the contact with a kiss. -Romeo.
-The cloak of the night will hide me from them, as long as you want me to be found here. It is better for my life to end because of your hatred, than to extend death without having your love. -Juliet.
"Ah, good night!" Leaving is such a sweet pity that I will say good night until dawn. -Juliet.
-Here, here I will stay with the worms, your servants. Ah, here I will surrender to eternity and shake off the yoke of adverse stars from this weary flesh. -Romeo.
-What is this? A vial in the hand of my lover? The poison has been its premature end. Ah, selfish! Do you drink it all without leaving me a drop to help me follow you? -Juliet.
-What light does that window shine on? It is the east, and Juliet, the sun. Come out, beautiful sun, and kill the envious moon, which is sick and pale with sorrow because you, who serve her, are more beautiful. -Romeo.
-Ah, look for him! Give this ring to my owner and tell her I want her last goodbye. -Juliet.
-Being so prudent with that beauty does not deserve heaven, because it makes me desperate. She has sworn not to love, and her oath to whoever tells you makes her live dead. -Romeo.
-How do I move on, if my love is here? Come back, sad mud, and look for your center -Romeo.
-Prudent and slow. Who runs, stumbles. -Fray Lorenzo.
-Oh my! Whose blood is it that stains the stones at the entrance of the tomb? What are these bloody and ownerless weapons doing next to this place of peace? Romeo! How pale! -Juliet.
-Come here, mistress. Who is that gentleman? Ask who it is. If he already has a wife, the grave would be my wedding bed. -Juliet.
-The violent joy has a violent end and dies in its ecstasy like fire and gunpowder, which, when united, explode. The sweetest honey cloies with pure delight and, when tasted, kills the appetite. -Fray Lorenzo.
-My husband is on earth; my oath, in heaven. How can it return to earth if, leaving earth, my husband does not send it to me from heaven? -Juliet.
-Ah! There is more danger in your eyes than in twenty swords of his. Look at me sweetly and I am safe from your hostility. -Romeo.
-Don't swear by the Moon, that fickle one that changes every month in its sphere, lest your love be so variable. -Juliet.
-My generosity is immense like the sea, my love, so deep; the more I give you, the more I have, because they are both infinite. -Juliet.
-It is torment and not mercy. Heaven is where Juliet is, and the cat, the dog, the mouse and the most miserable animal here are in the sky and can see her. Romeo, no. -Romeo.
-The lovers can walk without falling through the spider threads that float in the naughty air of summer; that's how mild the illusion is. -Fray Lorenzo.
-If you love me, tell me in good faith. Or, if you think I'm that easy, I'll get rough and weird and say "no" as long as you make me fall in love, and no more than you. -Juliet.
-It hides the cloak of the night and, if you don't love me, let them find me: better that my life ends because of their hatred than to see how they crawl without your love. -Romeo.