ABC Quotes

If ever you disturb our streets again,
Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.

A. Prince
B. Montagues + Capulets
C. If you cause anymore fights, you will be put to death.

Oh, where is Romeo? Saw you him today?
Right glad I am he was not at this fray.

A. Lady Montague
B. Benvolio
C. Where is Romeo? I'm glad he wasn't in the fight.

Here's much to do with hate but more with love.

A. Romeo
B. Benvolio
C. He loves Rosaline, but he hates her for the misery she's putting him through.
(Brawl caused by family but also by his love, Rosaline, a Capulet).

Let two more summers wither in their pride
Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.

A. Lord Capulet
B. Paris
C. Let two more years pass before we think of Juliet getting married.

Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!

A. Romeo
B. Himself
C. She is so beautiful she outshines the torches.

I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall,
Now seeming sweet, convert to bitt'rest gall.

A. Tybalt
B. Himself
C. I won't get Romeo now, but I won't forget. I'll get him later.

Is she a Capulet?
O dear account! My life is my foe's debt.

A. Romeo
B. Himself
C. My life is now in the hands of my enemy.

If he be married,
My grave is like to be my wedding bed.

A. Juliet
B. Herself
C. If he's married, I'll be alone until death�I'll never marry.
(Dramatic Irony�her grave will be her wedding bed).

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.

A. Juliet
B. Herself
C. I was attracted to him before I knew who he was, and now that I know, it is too late to
stop. I love my hated enemy.

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

A. Romeo
B. Himself
C. He doesn't get it. He doesn't know love like I do.

O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?

A. Juliet
B. Herself
C. Why are you a Montague?

What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any word would smell as sweet.

A. Juliet
B. Herself
C. Names don't matter.

Although I joy in thee,
I have no joy of this contract tonight.
It is too rash, too unadvised, to sudden.
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be.
Ere one can say "It lightens

A. Juliet
B. Romeo
C. Although I love you, I don't think we should move so quickly.

Love goes towards love as schoolboys from their books,
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

A. Romeo
B. Himself
C. Lovers run to each other like school boys away from school, and lovers have to be dragged away from each other like schoolboys need to be dragged to school.

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

A. Juliet
B. Romeo
C. If I say goodnight enough, it will be morning, and I won't have to say it anymore.

...Young men's love then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

A. Friar Lawrence
B. Romeo
C. You are loving with your eyes (looks) but not with your heart. (so soon to fall out of love and into it again.)

So smile to heavens upon this holy act
That after-hours with sorrow chide us not.

A. Friar Lawrence
B. Romeo (God)
C. Please let this act be smiled upon by God, so we are not full of sorrow afterward.

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

A. Friar Lawrence
B. Romeo
C. When two people like you meet, It can blow up in your face. Take it slowly.

This day's black fate on more days doth depend.
This but begins the woe others must end.

A. Romeo
B. Benvolio
C. This is just the beginning, but there is more to come. It will lead to more dark days.

The all-seing sun
Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun

A. Romeo
B. Benvolio
�. Rosaline is the most beautiful woman of all time (hyperbole)

I would not for the wealth of all this town
Here in my house do him disparagement.

A. Lord Capulet
B. Tybalt
C. I would not harm or insult this man (Romeo) in my house for anything

Away to Heaven, respective lenity,
And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now.

A. Romeo
B. Benvolio
C. No More Mr. Nice Guy

Oh, I am fortune's fool!

A. Romeo
B. Benvolio
C. I am a victim of fortune.
ALSO: CLIMAX

Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?
Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name,
When I, thy three hours' wife, have mangled it?
But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin?
That villain cousin would have killed my husband.

A. Juliet
B. Nurse
C. How should I feel? My husband of 3 hours killed my cousin of a lifetime. My cousin would have killed my husband.

There is no end, no limit, measure, bound,
In that word's death. No words can that woe sound.

A. Juliet
B. Nurse
C. Nothing can be worse than banishment, not even death.

Affliction is enamored of thy parts,
And thou art wedded to calamity.

A. Friar Lawrence
B. Romeo
C. Misery is in love with your good qualities, and you and disaster are bound together.

More light and light, more dark and dark our woes.

A. Romeo
B. Juliet
C. The lighter it gets outside, the sadder we become.

Then, window, let day in and let life out.

A. Juliet
B. Romeo/Window
C. Let the day come so Romeo can leave.

I would the fool were married to her grave!

A. Lady Capulet
B. Lord Capulet
C. I wish she were dead.

An you be mine, I'll give you to my friend.
An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets,

A. Lord Capulet
B. Juliet
C. You will marry Paris or I will throw you out into the streets.

I'll to the Friar to know his remedy.
If all else fail, myself have power to die.

A. Juliet
B. Herself
C. I'll go to the Friar for help, but if he fails, I'll kill myself.

My heart is wondrous light
Since this same wayward girl is so reclaimed.

A. Lord Capulet
B. Lady Capulet
C. I'm so glad our daughter is doing what we want her to do.

Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

A. Lord Capulet
B. Lady Capulet/Nurse
C. Juliet, like a flower bitten by an early frost, died early.

Then I defy you, stars.

A. Romeo
B. Stars/fate
C. I don't accept that. I will be with Juliet tonight.

Come, cordial and not poison; go with me
To Juliet's grave, for there must I use thee

A. Romeo
B. Himself/poison
C. I'm looking forward to drinking poison so I can be with Juliet.

Muffle me, night, awile.

A. Paris
B. Himself/Night
C. Hide me, night.

See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
That Heaven fins means to kill your joys with love!

A. Prince
B. Capulet/Montague
C. Your hatred killed your children.

For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

A. Prince
B. Capulet/Montague
C. There has never been a sadder story.

If ever you disturb our streets again,
Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.

A. Prince
B. Montagues + Capulets
C. If you cause anymore fights, you will be put to death.

Oh, where is Romeo? Saw you him today?
Right glad I am he was not at this fray.

A. Lady Montague
B. Benvolio
C. Where is Romeo? I'm glad he wasn't in the fight.

Here's much to do with hate but more with love.

A. Romeo
B. Benvolio
C. He loves Rosaline, but he hates her for the misery she's putting him through.
(Brawl caused by family but also by his love, Rosaline, a Capulet).

Let two more summers wither in their pride
Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.

A. Lord Capulet
B. Paris
C. Let two more years pass before we think of Juliet getting married.

Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!

A. Romeo
B. Himself
C. She is so beautiful she outshines the torches.

I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall,
Now seeming sweet, convert to bitt'rest gall.

A. Tybalt
B. Himself
C. I won't get Romeo now, but I won't forget. I'll get him later.

Is she a Capulet?
O dear account! My life is my foe's debt.

A. Romeo
B. Himself
C. My life is now in the hands of my enemy.

If he be married,
My grave is like to be my wedding bed.

A. Juliet
B. Herself
C. If he's married, I'll be alone until death�I'll never marry.
(Dramatic Irony�her grave will be her wedding bed).

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.

A. Juliet
B. Herself
C. I was attracted to him before I knew who he was, and now that I know, it is too late to
stop. I love my hated enemy.

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

A. Romeo
B. Himself
C. He doesn't get it. He doesn't know love like I do.

O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?

A. Juliet
B. Herself
C. Why are you a Montague?

What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any word would smell as sweet.

A. Juliet
B. Herself
C. Names don't matter.

Although I joy in thee,
I have no joy of this contract tonight.
It is too rash, too unadvised, to sudden.
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be.
Ere one can say "It lightens

A. Juliet
B. Romeo
C. Although I love you, I don't think we should move so quickly.

Love goes towards love as schoolboys from their books,
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

A. Romeo
B. Himself
C. Lovers run to each other like school boys away from school, and lovers have to be dragged away from each other like schoolboys need to be dragged to school.

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

A. Juliet
B. Romeo
C. If I say goodnight enough, it will be morning, and I won't have to say it anymore.

...Young men's love then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

A. Friar Lawrence
B. Romeo
C. You are loving with your eyes (looks) but not with your heart. (so soon to fall out of love and into it again.)

So smile to heavens upon this holy act
That after-hours with sorrow chide us not.

A. Friar Lawrence
B. Romeo (God)
C. Please let this act be smiled upon by God, so we are not full of sorrow afterward.

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

A. Friar Lawrence
B. Romeo
C. When two people like you meet, It can blow up in your face. Take it slowly.

This day's black fate on more days doth depend.
This but begins the woe others must end.

A. Romeo
B. Benvolio
C. This is just the beginning, but there is more to come. It will lead to more dark days.

The all-seing sun
Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun

A. Romeo
B. Benvolio
�. Rosaline is the most beautiful woman of all time (hyperbole)

I would not for the wealth of all this town
Here in my house do him disparagement.

A. Lord Capulet
B. Tybalt
C. I would not harm or insult this man (Romeo) in my house for anything

Away to Heaven, respective lenity,
And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now.

A. Romeo
B. Benvolio
C. No More Mr. Nice Guy

Oh, I am fortune's fool!

A. Romeo
B. Benvolio
C. I am a victim of fortune.
ALSO: CLIMAX

Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?
Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name,
When I, thy three hours' wife, have mangled it?
But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin?
That villain cousin would have killed my husband.

A. Juliet
B. Nurse
C. How should I feel? My husband of 3 hours killed my cousin of a lifetime. My cousin would have killed my husband.

There is no end, no limit, measure, bound,
In that word's death. No words can that woe sound.

A. Juliet
B. Nurse
C. Nothing can be worse than banishment, not even death.

Affliction is enamored of thy parts,
And thou art wedded to calamity.

A. Friar Lawrence
B. Romeo
C. Misery is in love with your good qualities, and you and disaster are bound together.

More light and light, more dark and dark our woes.

A. Romeo
B. Juliet
C. The lighter it gets outside, the sadder we become.

Then, window, let day in and let life out.

A. Juliet
B. Romeo/Window
C. Let the day come so Romeo can leave.

I would the fool were married to her grave!

A. Lady Capulet
B. Lord Capulet
C. I wish she were dead.

An you be mine, I'll give you to my friend.
An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets,

A. Lord Capulet
B. Juliet
C. You will marry Paris or I will throw you out into the streets.

I'll to the Friar to know his remedy.
If all else fail, myself have power to die.

A. Juliet
B. Herself
C. I'll go to the Friar for help, but if he fails, I'll kill myself.

My heart is wondrous light
Since this same wayward girl is so reclaimed.

A. Lord Capulet
B. Lady Capulet
C. I'm so glad our daughter is doing what we want her to do.

Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

A. Lord Capulet
B. Lady Capulet/Nurse
C. Juliet, like a flower bitten by an early frost, died early.

Then I defy you, stars.

A. Romeo
B. Stars/fate
C. I don't accept that. I will be with Juliet tonight.

Come, cordial and not poison; go with me
To Juliet's grave, for there must I use thee

A. Romeo
B. Himself/poison
C. I'm looking forward to drinking poison so I can be with Juliet.

Muffle me, night, awile.

A. Paris
B. Himself/Night
C. Hide me, night.

See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
That Heaven fins means to kill your joys with love!

A. Prince
B. Capulet/Montague
C. Your hatred killed your children.

For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

A. Prince
B. Capulet/Montague
C. There has never been a sadder story.