Benvolio

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Benvolio's Quotes

"I shall entreat him To answer like himself. "

Enobarbus, Antony and Cleopatra, 2.2.3-4

Benvolio's Info

“I do but keep the peace” 1.1.65

  • Hometown

    "fair Verona" Prologue, 2

  • Also Called

    “coward” 1.1.69
    “good heart” 1.1.182
    “a kinsman to the Montague” 3.1.178

  • Personal Philosophy

    “This is the truth, or let Benvolio die.” 3.1.177

  • Views on Love

    "Alas that love so gentle in his view,
    Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof." 1.1.167-8

Interviews with Benvolio

O wall, O sweet, O lovely wall

"Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace" 1.1.79

Benvolio, who began this bloody fray? 3.1.153

"True, I talk of dreams" 1.4.96

Come, come, thou art as hot as a jack in thy mood
as any in Italy; and as soon moved to be moody,
and as soon moody to be moved. 3.1.11-13

"O dear account. My life is my foe's debt." 1.5.117

O teach me how I should forget to think. 1.1224

"O dear account. My life is my foe's debt." 1.5.117

This love that thou hast shown
Doth add more grief to too much of mine own. 1.1.186-7

"To strike him dead I hold it not a sin." 1.5.58

Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death. 1.1.64