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Key Romeo and Juliet Quotes

I'm doing my GCSEs in 2018 but I've got my Pre Public Exams in June, so I'm starting to make notes. I want to get a really good grade in English Literature next year (8/9), but I have to learn key quotes from three texts: Romeo and Juliet, An Inspector Calls and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. I've annotated all of these texts but I feel as if I've picked out too much, and I won't be able to memorise all of them. If you have a list of key quotes for each important character that you don't mind sharing, please reply! Thank you in advance!
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Anyone have a list of quotes for Romeo and Juliet? I need ones which you can write a lot about such as "Juliet: O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! ... honourable villain... damned saint"

Thanks
Romeo and Juliet:

Love

"A pair of star crossed lovers" - Prologue
"Sad hours seem long" - Romeo
"She hath Dians wit" - Romeo (Talking about Rosaline)
"Arm'd" - Romeo (Talking about Rosaline being armed against any affection shown by Romeo due to her swearing chaste)
"Saint seducing gold" - Romeo
"Saints lips... Holy palmers kiss" - Romeo
"Loves sweet bait" - Juliet
"So soon forgotten?" - Friar
"Pure love" - Friar
"Love moderately" - Friar
"Prick for a picking" - Mercutio

Hate

"Ancient grudge" - Prologue
"Bite my thumb" - Sampson
"Fetch me my rapier" - Tybalt
"My only love sprung from my only hate"
"Peace? I hate the word. As I hate hell, all Montagues and thee"

Fate

"A pair of star crossed lovers" - Prologue
"Hanging in the stars" - Romeo
"My grave is like to be my wedding bed" - Juliet
"Unhappy fortune" - Friar
"Higher power" - Friar
"I am fortunes fool!" - Romeo
"I defy you stars!" - Romeo

Family

"Two households, both alike in dignity" - Prologue
"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes" - Prologue
"Wherefore art thou Romeo" - Juliet
"Fetch me my longsword, ho!" - Capulet
"Disobedient wretch!" - Capulet
"That villain cousin would have killed my husband" - Juliet
"Ill give you to my friend!" - Capulet

I would also write my analysis but its much better to analyse quotes in your own way.
These violent Delights have violent ends
Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon
Just make quotes that link to the theme/context of the play but also have a lot of devices in them and cover key events in the play.
panicking cos my gcse is tomorrow but this has helped me loads so thanks ur a saint
Original post by El Patron
Romeo and Juliet:

Love

"A pair of star crossed lovers" - Prologue
"Sad hours seem long" - Romeo
"She hath Dians wit" - Romeo (Talking about Rosaline)
"Arm'd" - Romeo (Talking about Rosaline being armed against any affection shown by Romeo due to her swearing chaste)
"Saint seducing gold" - Romeo
"Saints lips... Holy palmers kiss" - Romeo
"Loves sweet bait" - Juliet
"So soon forgotten?" - Friar
"Pure love" - Friar
"Love moderately" - Friar
"Prick for a picking" - Mercutio

Hate

"Ancient grudge" - Prologue
"Bite my thumb" - Sampson
"Fetch me my rapier" - Tybalt
"My only love sprung from my only hate"
"Peace? I hate the word. As I hate hell, all Montagues and thee"

Fate

"A pair of star crossed lovers" - Prologue
"Hanging in the stars" - Romeo
"My grave is like to be my wedding bed" - Juliet
"Unhappy fortune" - Friar
"Higher power" - Friar
"I am fortunes fool!" - Romeo
"I defy you stars!" - Romeo

Family

"Two households, both alike in dignity" - Prologue
"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes" - Prologue
"Wherefore art thou Romeo" - Juliet
"Fetch me my longsword, ho!" - Capulet
"Disobedient wretch!" - Capulet
"That villain cousin would have killed my husband" - Juliet
"Ill give you to my friend!" - Capulet

I would also write my analysis but its much better to analyse quotes in your own way.
Reply 6
Original post by nightswatch
panicking cos my gcse is tomorrow but this has helped me loads so thanks ur a saint


can someone give me a couple quotes from each act from each character and/or each theme... just two quotes will do


if not is there a website you can link to


i also need help with the anthology poems
Reply 7
Original post by nightswatch
panicking cos my gcse is tomorrow but this has helped me loads so thanks ur a saint


can someone give me a couple quotes from each act from each character and/or each theme... just two quotes will do


if not is there a website you can link to


i also need help with the anthology poems
for Romeo and Juliet you could use:' love is a smoke raised with fame of sighs'i defy you stars''o, she doth teach the torches burn bright'' o, i am a fortunate fool''did my heart love till now'' a pair of star crossed lover take their lives''o romeo, romeo,wherefor athough romeo.....'' my only love sprung from my only hate'
for romeo and juliet

love is a smoke raised withen flames of sights", " i defy you stars"," she doth teach the torches burn bright", " o, i am a fortunes fool", "did my heart love till now", a pair of star crossed lovers", " O, romeo, rome where arthou romeo...", " my only love sprung from my only hate".
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