Explore 92 Juliet Quotes (page 2) by authors including Malorie Blackman, Mads Mikkelsen, and Sam Heughan at BrainyQuote. 'The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.' “These violent delights have violent ends. And in their triump die, like fire and powder.

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Who doesn’t know the tragic but romantic love story of Romeo and Juliet? Almost all of us have read about it. However, not everyone has liked the story. It’s understandable because as human beings, we naturally expect and want happy endings. But William Shakespeare served us a different kind of story. He reminded us of the reality that life doesn’t always end the way we want it. Romeo and Juliet’s story is about two lovers who followed their hearts instead of the rules and the tragic end of the path they chose. In today’s generation, we can compare them to two overly emotional teenagers dealing with their first love.

The story of Romeo and Juliet is considered as the first play/story during the renaissance era that opened the eyes of the people about the meaning of true love and what it does to mankind. In spite of it being a tragic love story, William Shakespeare wrote a phenomenal romantic language that left everyone in tears. It touched people’s hearts and minds so deeply that made it the greatest romance story in the world.

We want to give you some of the best Romeo and Juliet quotes as well as quotes from people who loved their wonderful story as much as we do! Have fun reading them!

Romeo and Juliet Quotes

1. Turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and forget about the garish sun. – William Shakespeare

2. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, oh you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death! – William Shakespeare

3. One fire burns out another’s burning, one pain is lessen’d by another’s anguish. – William Shakespeare

4. Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn. – William Shakespeare

5. Death, that hath suck’d the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. – William Shakespeare

6. The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately. – William Shakespeare

7. It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it. – William Shakespeare

8. Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books. But love from love, toward school with heavy looks. – William Shakespeare

9. These violent delights have violent ends. And in their triumph die, like fire and powder. Which, as they kiss, consume. – William Shakespeare

10. My bounty is as boundless as the sea. My love as deep; the more I give to thee. The more I have, for both are infinite. – William Shakespeare

11. Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it. – William Shakespeare

12. Thus with a kiss, I die. – William Shakespeare

13. Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow. That I shall say good night till it be morrow. – William Shakespeare

14. For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo. – William Shakespeare

15. Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change. – William Shakespeare

16. O serpent heart hid with a flowering face. Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical, dove feathered raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of divinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest – A damned saint, an honourable villain! – William Shakespeare

17. Two households, both alike in dignity. In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny. Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes. A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life. Whose misadventured piteous overthrows. Do with their death bury their parents’ strife. – William Shakespeare

18. Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. – William Shakespeare

Good Quotes From Romeo And Juliet Act 2

19. 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

20. What’s in a name? that which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet. – William Shakespeare

21. See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand. That I might touch that cheek! – William Shakespeare

22. O, here. Will I set up my everlasting rest. And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars. From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last. Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you. The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss. A dateless bargain to engrossing death! – William Shakespeare

23. Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O anything, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity. Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms. Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health. Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this. – William Shakespeare

24. You are a lover. Borrow Cupid’s wings and soar with them above a common bound. – William Shakespeare

25. My only love sprung from my only hate. – William Shakespeare

26. A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon’d, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe. Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. – William Shakespeare

27. With Romeo and Juliet, you’re talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the same night. I believe in love at first sight-but it hasn’t happened to me yet. – Leonardo DiCaprio

28. 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

29. 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

30. When I wrote ‘Noughts and Crosses’, I was halfway through it when I realized this was very like ‘Romeo and Juliet’… as long as you make it your own, and put your own spin on it, I think it’s brilliant to use other great work to find your own voice. – Malorie Blackman

31. I spent two years at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and then some New York types saw me there as Benvolio in ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ They sent me some enticing letters – about why didn’t I come to New York? – and since it was well below zero that winter in Minneapolis, it didn’t take much to get me to leave. – Peter MacNicol

32. I’ve always found it funny when people call ‘Romeo and Juliet’ ‘the greatest love story ever told’ because – man – it does not work out well for those kids, you know? I’d like to think the greatest love story ever told would at least let them be together for more than a few hours. – Ryan North

33. Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn’t matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he’s fine. If it doesn’t work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won’t matter. – George Will

34. I’ve done ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona,’ I’ve understudied Iago in ‘Othello.’ I’ve done Mercutio in ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ – Robert Englund

35. When I wrote ‘Noughts and Crosses’, I was halfway through it when I realised this was very like ‘Romeo and Juliet’… as long as you make it your own, and put your own spin on it, I think it’s brilliant to use other great work to find your own voice. – Malorie Blackman

36. A lot of people say to me, ‘Is this good, to do to a Shakespeare piece?’ And I think, ‘You know, ‘West Side Story’ did it very cleverly, in a different way.’ But if you look at ‘Bonnie and Clyde,’ ‘Titanic,’ ‘Avatar,’ ‘Grease,’ ‘Brokeback Mountain’ they’re all ‘Romeo and Juliet’ stories. – Kelly Asbury

37. When I was doing ‘Tales from Hollywood’ at the National, I was invited to dinner by the choreographer, Kenneth MacMillan. He told me I had the heart of a dancer and asked me if I’d like to come on at the end of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ as a friar. I said I’d love to, but sadly, MacMillan died shortly after. – Michael Gambon

38. Barriers tend to intensify romance. It’s called the ‘Romeo and Juliet effect.’ I call it ‘frustration attraction.’ – Helen Fisher

39. I always say to people, ‘You know, if Romeo and Juliet got married, nobody would care about them.’ Imagine Romeo and Juliet, six kids yelling, ‘Mama, Mama, Papa, Papa!’ – Marjane Satrapi

40. I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why ‘Romeo and Juliet’ came to such a pass. – Roxane Gay

41. Old-school Dire Straits songs are on heavy rotation: ‘So Far Away,’ ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and of course ‘Sultans of Swing.’ – Nazanin Boniad

42. 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

43. 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

Romeo And Juliet Quotes From Act 3 Scene 2

44. This Romeo character is something I decided to create, like my alter ego. So the name Romeo was invented from the original Romeo and Juliet. I wanted to show people I’m like a modern Romeo. – Romeo Santos

45. You go see a great production of ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ where those kids are full of life and love, you hope and forget. – Leslie Odom, Jr.

46. 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

47. I feel like every night, when you see a really good production of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ or something, you should hope that it ends differently. That’s why we watch our favorite movies again and again. – Leslie Odom, Jr.

48. The classic, ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ for me, is the iconic story of young love. – Sam Heughan

49. 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

50. My first professional role was in ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ and I played Tybalt, who was Romeo’s enemy, in a small production of that in the U.K. – Sean Bean

Quotes From Romeo And Juliet Act 2 Scene 6

51. I’ve always said that ‘Dharma and Greg’ is ‘Romeo and Juliet’ meets ‘The Odd Couple.’ – Thomas Gibson

52. If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth. – Joyce Brothers

53. Romeo and Juliet were stunning and beautiful, but a lot of the other characters surrounding them were caricatures. – Douglas Booth

54. I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet. – Sally Field

55. I did a crazy version of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ once, and I played Romeo. – Mads Mikkelsen

56. 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

57. Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s version of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is my favorite full-length ballet, Sergei Prokofiev’s breathtaking score a favorite composition of music. As a student of martial arts, I loved drawing my sword in defense of my Capulet kin. – Sascha Radetsky

58. Make no mistake: I love women. I’m married to one, I was birthed by one, and I played one in my high school production of ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ No one else could fit into the bodice. – Stephen Colbert

59. 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

60. I don’t know if anyone knows if they’re ever any good, but I went to drama school in Scotland, in a classical acting course, and my first year, I remember one of my tutors telling me that I couldn’t act, and I should give up and all this sort of thing, and then, they cast me as Romeo in ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ – Sam Heughan

61. 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

62. If you actually saw your favorite movie star who is also a great classical actor doing ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ ‘Macbeth’ or ‘Taming of the Shrew,’ it would be a great thing and a great thing for kids to get interested in language. – Thomas Gibson

63. I tried to forget about playing Romeo in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and just think about him as a normal guy, as a normal character, and just try and approach him the same I would every other character. – Douglas Booth

64. I think what’s universal about the story of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is every one has grown up and done something that was rebellious against their parents’ wishes, be it love or something else. – Kelly Asbury

65. 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

66. I think ‘West Side Story’ is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, musicals ever put on screen – or stage, for that matter. I, frankly, like Zeffirelli’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ very much, too. I grew up with that. I loved it. I loved the score; I loved the acting. – Kelly Asbury

67. 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

68. 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

69. So often in sitcoms, it’s like, ‘Oh, that husband of mine. He just screwed up again.’ They just have to tolerate each other. It’s not the most fun to play from my perspective. But by the same token, you can’t be like, ‘We’re just like Romeo and Juliet, always in love.’ – David Denman

70. 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

71. It’s pretty hard to play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ with someone and not fall in love. – Douglas Hodge

72. There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket. – Abe Lemons

73. 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

74. 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

75. I thought Leonardo DiCaprio was amazing in Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ – Brenton Thwaites

76. Olivia Hussey from Zeffirelli’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ makes the intense vulnerability of true love look magnificent. – Lauren Kate

77. Sometimes the leads are equally balanced, like in ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ but sometimes they’re just not. – Ailyn Perez

78. 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

79. 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

80. 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

81. It’s awful, telling it like this, isn’t it? As though we didn’t know the ending. As though it could have another ending. It’s like watching Romeo drink poison. Every time you see it you get fooled into thinking his girlfriend might wake up and stop him. Every single time you see it you want to shout, ‘You stupid ass, just wait a minute,’ and she’ll open her eyes! ‘Oi, you, you twat, open your eyes, wake up! Don’t die this time!’ But they always do. – Elizabeth Wein

82. Think about it: Romeo and Juliet bucked the system, and look where it got them. Superman has the hots for Lois Lane, when the better match, of course, would be with Wonder Woman. – Jodi Picoult

83. 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

84. Troy sighed with frustration. “Let me get this straight. We’re stuck in the story of Romeo and Juliet and we can’t get home without a magic charm from Shakespeare’s quill, which doesn’t exist in this world. However, we might be able to get home when the story ends, but if Romeo and Juliet don’t meet, then we don’t have a story. More important, we don’t have an ending.” Friar Laurence tsk tsked. He placed his speckled hand on Troy’s forehead. “Bless you, my son, but a fever has muddled your mind. – Suzanne Selfors

85. There are a million things in this world that can end you, that can in one second obliterate the life you work so hard to keep alive. Our lives are structured around not dying. Eating, sleeping, looking both ways before you cross the street. It’s all, all of it, to keep us safe from the thing that we know is going to get us anyway. It doesn’t even make sense, if you think about it. It’s the world’s biggest joke. Our entire lives are set up around not dying, knowing all the while that it’s the one thing we can’t avoid. – Rebecca Serle

86. The two of them became an instant couple. Very Romeo and Juliet without the wonky families and tragic double-suicide thing. – J. Saman

87. Had Romeo and Juliet higher IQ too or just love affair? While today’s most lovers have the higher IQ, but even that, they fail. – Ehsan Sehgal

88. 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

89. 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

90. Everyone knows that how to love, But every relationship do not come out as Romeo and Juliet. – Yaganesh Derasari

91. Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start. / When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet? – Mark Knopfler

92. 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

93. I guess I’m just waiting for someone who makes me feel good – someone I can’t bear to be apart from. Juliet was so lucky to find her Romeo and I guess I’m just waiting for mine to turn up. – Emily Arden

94. I want to be Tragedy, I want to be Juliet, I want to be Romeo. Thus with a kiss I die. – Lee Smith

95. Romeo has poisoned himself. Idiot. – Leisa Rayven

96. 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

97. Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end. – Raquel Cepeda

98. We are all Romeos looking for our Juliet, but never finding her. – Rae Hachton