Romeo

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Romeo's Quotes

"If music be the food of love, play on. "

Orsino, Twelfth Night, 1.1.1

Romeo's Info

"O, I am fortune's fool." 3.1.138

  • Hometown

    "fair Verona" Prologue, 2

  • Age

    "a virtuous and well-govern’d youth" 1.5.67

  • Also Called

    "Good pilgrim" 1.5.96
    "Madman! Passion! Lover!" 2.1.7
    "young waverer" 2.3.85
    "wretched boy" 3.1.132

  • Personal Philosophy

    "Then I defy you, stars!" 5.1.24

  • Views on Love

    "Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptis’d." 2.2.50

    "For stony limits cannot hold love out,
    And what love can do, that dares love attempt." 2.2.67-68

Interviews with Romeo

O wall, O sweet, O lovely wall

"I'll look to like, if looking liking move." 1.3.97

What’s here? A cup clos’d in my true love’s hand?
Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end.
O churl. Drunk all, and left no friendly drop
To help me after? I will kiss thy lips. 5.3.161-164

"What say you to my suit?" 1.2.6

Stop thy unhallow’d toil, vile Montague.
Can vengeance be pursu’d further than death?
Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee.
Obey, and go with me, for thou must die. 5.3.54-57

"I'll look to like, if looking liking move." 1.3.97

Art thou gone so? Love, lord, ay husband, friend,
I must hear from thee every day in the hour. 3.5.43-4

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

Thy tears are womanish, thy wild acts denote
The unreasonable fury of a beast.
Unseemly woman in a seeming man. 3.3.109-111

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

thou art wedded to calamity. 3.3.3

"I'll look to like, if looking liking move." 1.3.97

Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name
When I thy three-hours wife have mangled it?
3.2.98-99

"I'll look to like, if looking liking move." 1.3.97

Oh serpent heart, hid with a flowering face.
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical ...
... A damned saint, an honourable villain! 3.2.73-75, 79

"Good morrow, cousin." 1.1.158

Romeo, away, be gone,
The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain!
Stand not amaz’d. The Prince will doom thee death
If thou art taken. Hence, be gone, away! 3.1.134-137

"True, I talk of dreams" 1.4.96

A plague on both your houses,
They have made worms’ meat of me.
I have it, and soundly too. Your houses! 3.1.108-110

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

Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford
No better term than this: thou art a villain. 3.1.59-60

"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. 2.6.35-7

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

Pray you sir, a word – and as I told you, my young lady bid me
enquire you out. What she bid me say, I will keep
to myself. But first let me tell ye, if ye should lead
her in a fool’s paradise, as they say, it were a very
gross kind of behavior, as they say; for the
gentlewoman is young. 2.4.159-164

"True, I talk of dreams" 1.4.96

Now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo;
now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by
nature. 2.4.89-91

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

But come young waverer, come, go with me,
In one respect I’ll thy assistant be.
For this alliance may so happy prove
To turn your households’ rancor to pure love. 2.3.85-88

"I'll look to like, if looking liking move." 1.3.97

What satisfaction canst thou have tonight? 2.2.126

"I'll look to like, if looking liking move." 1.3.97

O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name.
Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet. 2.2.33-36

"True, I talk of dreams" 1.4.96

Romeo! Humours! Madman! Passion! Lover!
Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh,
Speak but one rhyme and I am satisfied. 2.1.7-9

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

Marry bachelor,
Her mother is the lady of the house,
And a good lady, and a wise and virtuous.
I nurs’d her daughter that you talk'd withal. 1.5.111-114

"I'll look to like, if looking liking move." 1.3.97

You kiss by th’book. 1.5.109

"I'll look to like, if looking liking move." 1.3.97

Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much. 1.5.96

"True, I talk of dreams" 1.4.96

You are a lover, borrow Cupid’s wings. 1.4.17