TOP 100 BEST ROMEO AND JULIET QUOTES IN 2020: UPDATED LIST

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1.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

2.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

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

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

5.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

6.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

7.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

8.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

9.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

10.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

11.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

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

13.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

14.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

15.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

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

Romeo and juliet quotes about love

17.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!—
Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide!
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!
Here’s to my love! [Drinks.]—O true apothecary!
Thy drugs are quick.—Thus with a kiss I die.

18.This is thy sheath [stabs herself]; there rest, and let me die.

19.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.

20.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

21.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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

32.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

33.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

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

35.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

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

37.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

38.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

39.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

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

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

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42.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

43.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

44.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

45.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

46.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

47.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

48.These violent delights have violent ends,
And in their triumph die; like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume: the sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness,
And in the taste confounds the appetite:
Therefore love moderately: long love doth so.

49.This love that thou hast shown
Doth add more grief to too much of mine own.
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes;
Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears.
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.

50.One fairer than my love? the all-seeing sun
Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun.

51.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.

52.But soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!—
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid art far more fair than she.

53.‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy.
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What’s Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.

54.See how she leans her cheek
upon her hand, O that I were a
glove upon that hand that I
might touch that cheek!

55.Good night, good night!
Parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it
be morrow.

56.I take thee at thy word:
Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptiz’d;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

57.O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circle orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.

58.And yet I wish but for the thing I have;
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.

59.Under love’s heavy burden do I sink.

60.Give me my Romeo; and, when he 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
And pay no worship to the garish sun.

61.Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.

Best romeo and juliet quotes

62.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

63.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.

63.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

64.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

65.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

66.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

67.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

68.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

69.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

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

71.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

72.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

73.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

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

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

76.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

77.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. –

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

79.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

80.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