Romeo and Juliet Quotes
❤️ Love & Passion
🧾 “With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls;
For stony limits cannot hold love out.”
– Act II, Scene II
Meaning: Romeo says love gave him the strength to climb over the wall into Juliet’s garden.
Context: Juliet worries for Romeo’s safety if her family finds him, but he says love conquers all dangers.
🧾 “My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep.”
– Act II, Scene II
Meaning: Juliet expresses how limitless and deep her love for Romeo is.
Context: During the famous balcony scene, Juliet speaks these lines to Romeo, confessing her overwhelming love.
⚔️ Family & Conflict
🧾 “O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?”
– Act II, Scene II
Meaning: Juliet laments that Romeo is a Montague, the son of her family’s enemy.
Context: She is not asking where Romeo is, but why he must be Romeo — her family's foe.
🧾 “My only love sprung from my only hate!”
– Act I, Scene V
Meaning: Juliet is shocked that the one she loves is part of the family she’s supposed to hate.
Context: She learns Romeo is a Montague after falling in love with him.
⏳ Fate & Destiny
🧾 “A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.”
– Prologue
Meaning: The lovers (Romeo and Juliet) are doomed by fate from the start.
Context: The Chorus introduces the play, foreshadowing the tragic ending.
🧾 “Then I defy you, stars!”
– Act V, Scene I
Meaning: Romeo curses fate after hearing (wrongly) that Juliet is dead.
Context: Furious at destiny, he chooses to take his own life and be with Juliet.
🗡️ Violence & Tragedy
🧾 “These violent delights have violent ends.”
– Act II, Scene VI
Meaning: Passionate pleasures often end in disaster.
Context: Friar Laurence warns Romeo that rushing into intense love can be dangerous.
🧾 “Thus with a kiss I die.”
– Act V, Scene III
Meaning: Romeo says this just before dying beside Juliet.
Context: Believing Juliet is dead, Romeo kisses her and drinks poison.
🧠 Wisdom & Irony
🧾 “Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.”
– Act II, Scene III
Meaning: Going too fast leads to mistakes.
Context: Friar Laurence advises Romeo to slow down and think before rushing into marriage.
🧾 “For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
– Act V, Scene III
Meaning: This is the saddest love story ever told.
Context: These are the final lines of the play, spoken by the Prince after the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.