Juliet Quotes

He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.

O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.

Look, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!

Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'

Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.

Flowers are the Romeos and the Juliets of the nature!

The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore love moderately— long love doth so.

What did Romeo and Juliet do?” They died,” I remind her gently. “Some mix-up with the poison-

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

Juliet had it easy; she never had to kill Romeo.

The weakest goes to the wall.

I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn.

I have a soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.

Oh, God! I have an ill-divining soul!

Sometimes the parallels that are brought in can make the play seem less relevant; you can deny a play's application to the universal by making it too specific. Sometimes having a modern context does make things easier to grasp; sometimes, you go, "Why have they got swords?" "Why didn't Juliet just text Romeo? Why did she bother posting a letter? Why was the Milan post service so bad?" It throws up irrelevant questions that don't help.

I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

Benvolio- "By my head, here come the Capulets." Mercutio- "By my heel, I care not.

The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo

Not proud you have, but thankful that you have. Proud can I never be of what I hate, but thankful even for hate that is meant love.

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.

Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use, Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

He that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail.

I'll look to like; if looking, liking move.

How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath?

Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds.

Blind is his love, and best befits the dark.

It was my life, playing Juliet. From that moment on I was convinced I was going to be an actress. That was all I really wanted to do.

I thought Leonardo DiCaprio was amazing in Baz Luhrmanns Romeo and Juliet.

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.

I think this [Gnomeo & Juliet] is the closest I ought to get to Shakespeare to be honest.

Juliet shook her head. The thought of eating anything made her feel nauseous. "No thanks, I'm not hungry." "Oh yeah, the heartbreak diet," nodded Trudy sagely. "Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt.

Jesus, woman!" he snapped. "When did we have to become Romeo and Juliet?

The story of the movie [Romeo + Juliet] is timeless. It's relevant then.

Nothing good happened to Romeo or Juliet.

Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story.

We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining.

Juliet is the east and i am the sun.

When I was 10, my school did Romeo and Juliet. I was Juliet, and that was, like, the biggest deal ever. I was completely obsessed with the role.

Baz Luhrrman's movie Romeo and Juliet is what made me decide that I wanted to dedicate my life to making films one way or another.

Ophelia was bonkers, right? And Juliet was what, a sixth-grader?