Juliet

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Juliet's Quotes

"For in Baptista's keep my treasure is. He hath the jewel of my life in hold, His youngest daughter, beautiful Bianca; And her withholds from me. "

Hortensio, The Taming of the Shrew, 1.2.116-119

Juliet's Info

“My only love sprung from my only hate.” 1.5.137

  • Hometown

    "fair Verona" Prologue, 2

  • Age

    "She hath not seen the change of fourteen years." 1.2.9

  • Also Called

    "Jule" 1.3.43
    "dear saint" 1.5.102
    "bright angel" 2.2.26
    "young baggage, disobedient wretch!" 3.5.160
    "my headstrong" 4.2.16

  • Personal Philosophy

    "What's in a name? That which we call a rose
    By any other word would smell as sweet." 2.2.43-44

  • Views on Love

    “Although I joy in thee,
    I have no joy of this contract tonight:
    "It is too rash, too unadvis’d, too sudden,
    Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
    Ere one can say ‘It lightens’.” 2.2.116-120

    "Love give me strength, and love shall strength afford." 4.1.125

Interviews with Juliet

O wall, O sweet, O lovely wall

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

Thus with a kiss I die. 5.3.120

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

O my love, my wife,
Death that hath suck’d the honey of thy breath
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
Thou art not conquer’d. 5.3.91-94

"What say you to my suit?" 1.2.6

The obsequies that I for thee will keep
Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep. 5.3.16-17

"My will to her consent is but a part" 1.2.17

O child, O child! My soul and not my child,
Dead art thou. Alack, my child is dead,
And with my child my joys are buried. 4.5.62-4

"if thou dar'st, I'll give thee remedy." 4.1.76

Hold, daughter. I do spy a kind of hope
Which craves as desperate an execution
As that is desperate which we would prevent.
… And if thou dar’st, I’ll give thee remedy. 4.1.68-70, 76

"I am aweary, give me leave awhile." 2.5.25

Romeo is banish’d, and all the world to nothing
… Then, since the case so stands as now it doth,
I think it best you married with the County. 3.5.213, 216-217

"How stands your dispositions to be married?" 1.3.65

Talk not to me, for I’ll not speak a word.
Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee. 3.5.202-3

"My will to her consent is but a part" 1.2.17

Mistress minion you,
Thank me no thankings nor proud me no prouds,
But fettle your fine joints ‘gainst Thursday next
To go with Paris to Saint Peter’s Church,
Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither.
Out, you green-sickness carrion! Out, you baggage! 3.5.151-156

"How stands your dispositions to be married?" 1.3.65

Well, well, thou hast a careful father, child;
One who to put thee from thy heaviness
Hath sorted out a sudden day of joy. 3.5.107-109

"How stands your dispositions to be married?" 1.3.65

Evermore weeping for your cousin’s death?
What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears? 3.5.69-70

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

I must be gone and live, or stay and die. 3.5.11

"I am aweary, give me leave awhile." 2.5.25

Tybalt is gone and Romeo banished.
Romeo that kill’d him, he is banished. 3.2.69-70

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

O sweet Juliet,
Thy beauty hath made me effeminate
And in my temper soften’d valour’s steel. 3.1.115-117

"if thou dar'st, I'll give thee remedy." 4.1.76

Come, come with me and we will make short work,
For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone
Till holy church incorporate two in one. 2.6.35-37

"I am aweary, give me leave awhile." 2.5.25

Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence' cell.
There stays a husband to make you a wife. 2.5.69-70

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

O wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied? 2.2.125

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

My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself,
Because it is an enemy to thee. 2.2.55-56

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

But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east and Juliet is the sun! 2.2.2-3

"I am aweary, give me leave awhile." 2.5.25

His name is Romeo, and a Montague,
The only son of your great enemy. 1.5.135-136

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

If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. 1.5.92-95

"How stands your dispositions to be married?" 1.3.65

Well, think of marriage now. Younger than you
Here in Verona, ladies of esteem,
Are made already mothers …
… The valiant Paris seeks you for his love. 1.3.69-71, 74

"I am aweary, give me leave awhile." 2.5.25

Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nurs’d.
And I might live to see thee married once,
I have my wish. 1.3.60-2