Romeo and Juliet quotes

Question 1

Key scene - impact on Tybalt

Answer 1

Romeo : “Either thou, or I or both must go with him.”

Question 2

Key scene - impact on Romeo

Answer 2

Romeo: “Fire eyed fury be my conduct now”

Prince: “Immediately we do exile him hence”
Romeo: “There is no world without Verona’s walls”

Question 3

Key scene - impact on Juliet

Answer 3

Juliet: “Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?”

Question 4

Key scene - theme

Answer 4

Romeo: “Did my heart love till now, forswear it sight for I ne’ver saw true beauty till this night.”
Romeo: “Fire eyed fury be my conduct now.”

Question 5

Key scene - plot

Answer 5

“More light and light, more dark and dark our woes!”

Question 6

Issue in society -secrecy of love

Answer 6

Juliet : “My only love is sprung from my only hate”.

Romeo: “But love thee better than thou canst devise, till thou shall know the reason of my love; and so good Capulet, which name i tender as dearly, as mine own, be satisfied.”

Question 7

Issue in society - ignoring the law

Answer 7

“I beg for justice, which thou, Prince, must give. Romeo slew Tybalt. Romeo must not live”.

“But Mantua’s law Is death to any he that utters them”. Romeo replies “I pay thy poverty and not thy will”.

Question 8

Issue in society - consequences on Romeo and Juliet

Answer 8

“What be these enemies? Capulet, Montague? See what a scourge is laid upon your hate” .

Question 9

Issue in society- consequences on society

Answer 9

Capulet: “O brother montague, give me thy hand. This is my daughter’s jointure, for no more I can demand.”

Montague: “But I can give thee more, for I will raise her statue in pure gold, that whiles Verona by that name is known, There shall no figure at such rate be set as that of true and faithful Juliet.”

Question 10

Setting - social setting -the feud

Answer 10

Benvolio: “For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.”
Romeo after Mercutio’s death - “Fire eyed fury be my conduct now!”

Question 11

Setting - Verona

Answer 11

“Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets.”

“From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.”

Question 12

Setting - friar’s cell

Answer 12

Friar when marrying Romeo and Juliet:Till Holy Church incorporate two in one”
Friar when he gives Juliet the potion : “Take thou this vial, being then in bed,/ and this distilling liquor drink thou off”

Question 13

Setting - the tomb

Answer 13

Paris when asking his Page (servant) for a torch: “Give me thy torch”
Romeo describing the tomb before entering:“Detestable maw”

Question 14

Destructive relationship - secrecy of love

Answer 14

Romeo when he finds out who Juliet is :

‘Is she a Capulet? O dear account! My life is my foe’s debt?”

Question 15

Destructive relationship - impact on relationships with others

Answer 15

‘I tell thee what: get thee to church a’Thursday, or never after look me in the face’
Mercutio as he’s dying : “A plague a’both houses’

Question 16

Destructive relationships - impact on behaviour - Romeo

Answer 16

“And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!”

Question 17

Destructive relationships - impact on behaviour - Juliet

Answer 17

1) Juliet when asked by her mother on her thoughts on marriage ‘It is an honour that I dream not of.’
2) This proves to be a direct contrast to further on in the play. In Act 3, she states, ‘and though I am sold/ Not yet enjoyed.’ - when Juliets is waiting for Romeo in her room.

3) Juliet when she’s about to kill herself: “Oh happy dagger.”

Question 18

Destructive relationships - impact on society

Answer 18

Prince at the tomb describing the deaths due to the feud :
1)‘Have lost a brace of kinsmen’

2) ‘Here lies the County Paris slain, And Romeo dead, and Juliet, dead before, Warm and new killed.

Families agree to end feud:‘O brother Montague, give me thy hand.’

Question 19

Romeo’s weakness - fickleness - love

Answer 19

Romeo : “Did my heart love till now?” Forswear it sight. For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”
Romeo: “On the fair daughter of rich Capulet; as mine on hers, so hers set on mine.”

Question 20

Romeo’s weakness - fickleness - conflict

Answer 20

Romeo: ‘And so, good Capulet, which name I tender As dearly as mine own, be satisfied’ -
Romeo after Mercutio’s death : ‘And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!’

Question 21

Romeo’s weakness - ignoring friar’s advice

Answer 21

Friar:Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied…Romeo:I pray thee chide me not. Her I love not’

Question 22

Romeo’s weakness - ignoring Balthasar’s advice

Answer 22

Balthasar:I do beseech you, sir have patience…
Romeo:Leave me…Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight’

Question 23

Romeo’s weakness - Romeo’s isolation- rejection from Rosaline

Answer 23

Romeo: “Out of her favour where I am in love”

Question 24

Romeo’s weakness - isolation- banishment

Answer 24

Friar:“Not body’s death, but body’s banishment.”
Romeo reacts with panic stating that:
“There is no world without Verona walls.”

Question 25

Romeo’s weakness - impact - Tybalt

Answer 25

Romeo before fighting Tybalt : “Either thou or I, or both, must go with him.”

Question 26

Romeo’s weakness - impact - Romeo’s banishment

Answer 26

Prince when banishing Romeo : “And for that offence, immediately we do exile him hence’

Question 27

Romeo’s weakness - impact - deaths

Answer 27

Prince outside tomb : “Here lies the County Paris slain, And Romeo dead, and Juliet, dead before, Warm and new killed.’