Romeo and Juliet Quotes Act One, Scenes 4-5

Not I, believe me: you have dancing shoes

With nimble soles: I have a soul of lead

So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.

• Benvolio

• Mercutio

• Romeo

• Juliet

If love be rough with you, be rough with love;

Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.

• Romeo

• Mercutio

• Benvolio

• Tybalt

Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace!

Thou talk'st of nothing.

• Romeo

• Benvolio

• Mercutio

• Juliet

He shall be endured:

What, goodman boy! I say, he shall: go to;

Am I the master here, or you? go to.

You'll not endure him! God shall mend my soul!

You'll make a mutiny among my guests!

You will set cock-a-hoop! you'll be the man!

• Mercutio

• Capulet

• Montague

• Prince

O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.

• Benvolio

• Romeo

• Juliet

• Mercutio

Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!

For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

• Juliet

• Romeo

• Nurse

• Mercutio

Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,

Which mannerly devotion shows in this;

For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,

And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.

• Nurse

• Paris

• Juliet

• Lady Capulet

Is she a Capulet?

O dear account! my life is my foe's debt.

• Mercutio

• Tybalt

• Friar Laurence

• Romeo

O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;

They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

• Romeo

• Juliet

• Mercutio

• Nurse

My only love sprung from my only hate!

Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

• Tybalt

• Juliet

• Montague

• Romeo