THEME: Love Flashcards
(35 cards)
ACT 1 SCENE 1
Romeo: “Love is a smoke…”
“…made from the fume of sighs”
ACT 1 SCENE 1
Romeo [about Rosaline]: “She will not stay the siege of loving terms…”
“…Nor bide th’encounter of assailing eyes, nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold”
ACT 1 SCENE 1
Romeo [about love] “Feather of —-, bright —-, —– fire, —– —-“
“Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health”
ACT 1 SCENE 1
Romeo [about the feud between the Cs and Ms]: “Here’s much to do with hate…”
“… but more with love”
ACT 1 SCENE 2
Benvolio [to Romeo, about Rosaline]: “Compare her face with some that I will show…”
“… and I will make thee think thy swan a crow”
ACT 1 SCENE 2
Romeo [about Rosaline]: “One fairer than my love! The all-seeing…”
“… sun never saw her match since first the world begun”
ACT 1 SCENE 4
Romeo: “Is love a tender thing?…”
“…It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.”
ACT 1 SCENE 4
Romeo: “I have a soul of lead…”
“… So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.”
ACT 1 SCENE 4
Romeo [about Cupid]: “I am too sore enpierced with his….”
“… shaft to soar with his light feathers”
ACT 1 SCENE 5
Romeo [about Juliet]: “Oh she doth teach…”
“… the torches to burn bright!”
ACT 1 SCENE 5
Romeo [about Juliet]: “As a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear…”
“… - Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear”
ACT 1 SCENE 5
Romeo [about Juliet]: “a snowy —– trooping with —–”
“A snowy dove trooping with crows”
ACT 1 SCENE 5
Juliet [about Romeo]: “If he be married, my —– is like to be my —— ——”
“If he be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed”
ACT 1 SCENE 5
Romeo [to Juliet]: “If I profane with my unworthiest hand…”
“… this holy shrine”
ACT 1 SCENE 5
Romeo [to Juliet]: “Thus from my lips, by thine, …”
“… my sin is purged”
ACT 1 SCENE 5
Chorus: “Now old desire doth in his death-bed lie…”
“… and young affection gapes to be his heir”
ACT 2 SCENE 1
Benvolio [about Romeo]: “—– is his love, and best befits the ——”
“Blind is his love, and best befits the dark”
ACT 2 SCENE 1
Mercutio: “Romeo! humours! ——-! passion! ——-!
“Romeo! humours! madman! passion! lover!”
ACT 2 SCENE 2
Romeo: “Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun,….”
“…. and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief that thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.”
ACT 2 SCENE 2
Romeo [to Juliet] : “Call me but love, and I’ll be…”
“…new baptised; Henceforth, I will never be Romeo”
ACT 2 SCENE 2
Romeo: “With love’s light —– did I —— these ——”
“With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls.”
ACT 2 SCENE 2
Romeo [to Juliet]: “My life were better ended by their hate, than…”
“… death prorogued, wanting of thy love.”
ACT 2 SCENE 2
Juliet [to Romeo]: “My bounty is as ——- as the ——, my —— as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I ——-, for both are ——”
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite”
ACT 2 SCENE 2
Romeo [to Juliet]: “O speak again, bright angel, for thou art…”
“…. as glorious to this night, being o’er my head, as is a winged messenger of heaven”
