WorksheetsRomeo and Juliet Act 1 Quotation Identification
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
"What? Drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word / As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee."
Benvolio
Romeo
Mercutio
Tybalt
"I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword, / Or manage it to part these men with me."
Romeo
Benvolio
Mercutio
Tybalt
"If ever you disturb our streets again, / Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace."
Tybalt
Prince
Lord Montague
Mercutio
"Black and portentous must this humor prove, / Unless good counsel may the cause remove."
Lord Montague
Mercutio
Romeo
Lord Capulet
"Here's much to do with hate, but more with love, / Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, / O anything of nothing first create!"
Mercutio
Benvolio
Romeo
Juliet
"But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart; / My will to her consent is but a part."
Lord/Lady Capulet
Nurse
Lord/Lady Montague
Prince
"Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. / An I might live to see thee married once, / I have my wish."
Lady Capulet
Lady Montague
Nurse
Lady Rosaline
"Well, think of marriage now. Younger than you / Here in Verona, ladies of esteem, / Are made already mothers.
Nurse
Lady Capulet
Lady Montague
Lord
"I'll look to like, if looking liking move, / But no more deep will I endure mine eye / Than your consent gives strength to make it fly."
Benvolio
Romeo
Juliet
Lady Capulet
"My mind misgives / Some consequence yet hanging in the stars / Shall bitterly begin his fearful date / With this night's revels, and expire the term / Of a despised life closed in my breast / By some vile forfeit of untimely death."
Juliet
Mercutio
Benvolio
Romeo
"Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, / For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
Juliet
Paris
Mercutio
Romeo
"If I profane with this 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."
Juliet
Romeo
Paris
Benvolio
"Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, / Which mannerly devolution shows in this;"
Romeo
Juliet
Paris
Lady Capulet
"But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun."
Paris
The Nurse
Romeo
Benvolio
"O Romeo, O Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"
Juliet
Tybalt
Benvolio
Mercutio
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet."
Juliet
Romeo
Nurse
Friar
"My life were better ended by their hate than death prorogued,
wanting of thy love."
Juliet
Romeo
Mercutio
Paris
"It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, too like the lightning,
which doth cease to be ere one can say "it lightens."
Who is speaking and what is the it?
Juliet
their love
Juliet
R proposing marriage
Romeo
their love
Romeo
their passion
"Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks."
Romeo
Benvolio
Mercutio
Friar
