Key Quotations Flashcards
All 32 cards in this deck
Complete the quotation: “Two households, both alike in dignity, / In fair Verona, …”
“… where we lay our scene.” The Chorus, in the Prologue.
Complete the quotation: “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes / …”
“A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.” The Prologue.
Who says “What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word”?
Tybalt, to Benvolio (Act 1 Scene 1).
Complete the quotation: “O brawling love! O loving hate! …”
“O anything, of nothing first create!” Romeo (Act 1 Scene 1).
Who says “Younger than she are happy mothers made”?
Paris, to Capulet (Act 1 Scene 2).
Who says “Thou wast the prettiest babe that e’er I nurs’d”?
The Nurse, to Juliet (Act 1 Scene 3).
Complete the quotation: “O, she doth teach the torches …”
“… to burn bright!” Romeo, on first seeing Juliet (Act 1 Scene 5).
Who says “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!”?
Romeo, at the feast (Act 1 Scene 5).
Who says “You kiss by the book”?
Juliet, to Romeo (Act 1 Scene 5).
Complete the quotation: “My only love sprung from …”
“… my only hate!” Juliet (Act 1 Scene 5).
Complete the quotation: “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? / …”
“It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!” Romeo (Act 2 Scene 2).
Complete the quotation: “O Romeo, Romeo, …”
“… wherefore art thou Romeo?” Juliet (Act 2 Scene 2).
Complete the quotation: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / …”
“By any other name would smell as sweet.” Juliet (Act 2 Scene 2).
Who says “It is too rash, too unadvis’d, too sudden”?
Juliet, about their vows (Act 2 Scene 2).
Complete the quotation: “Parting is such sweet sorrow / …”
“That I shall say good night till it be morrow.” Juliet (Act 2 Scene 2).
Complete the quotation: “Young men’s love then lies / …”
“Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.” Friar Lawrence (Act 2 Scene 3).
Who says “Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford / No better term than this: Thou art a villain”?
Tybalt (Act 3 Scene 1).
Who says “A plague o’ both your houses”?
Mercutio, as he dies (Act 3 Scene 1).
Complete the quotation: “Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me …”
“… a grave man.” Mercutio (Act 3 Scene 1).
Complete the quotation: “O sweet Juliet, / Thy beauty hath made me …”
“… effeminate.” Romeo (Act 3 Scene 1).
Who says “O, I am fortune’s fool!”?
Romeo, after killing Tybalt (Act 3 Scene 1).
Who says “Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill”?
The Prince, banishing Romeo (Act 3 Scene 1).
Complete the quotation: “Gallop apace, you …”
“… fiery-footed steeds.” Juliet (Act 3 Scene 2).
Who calls Romeo “Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical”?
Juliet, on hearing he killed Tybalt (Act 3 Scene 2).
Who says “Hang thee young baggage, disobedient wretch!”?
Capulet, to Juliet (Act 3 Scene 5).
Who says “Romeo’s a dishclout to him”, comparing Romeo with Paris?
The Nurse (Act 3 Scene 5).
Complete the quotation: “If all else fail, …”
“… myself have power to die.” Juliet (Act 3 Scene 5).
Who says “Death lies on her like an untimely frost”?
Capulet, finding Juliet apparently dead (Act 4 Scene 5).
Complete the quotation: “Is it even so? Then I defy you, …”
“… stars!” Romeo, hearing Juliet is dead (Act 5 Scene 1).
Who says “Thus with a kiss I die”?
Romeo, after drinking the poison (Act 5 Scene 3).
Complete the quotation: “Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O …”
“… happy dagger.” Juliet (Act 5 Scene 3).
Complete the quotation: “For never was a story of more woe / …”
“Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” The Prince, closing the play.