Quotations
Place the following quotations in context.
- 'O she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear'.
- 'True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy."
- 'From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life'.
- 'What drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word
As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee'.
- 'She'll not be hit with Cupid's arrow'.
- 'He jests at scars that never felt a wound'.
- 'What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet'.
- I'll look to like, if looking liking move'.
- 'My only love, sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!'
- 'I have no joy of this contract tonight.
It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden'.
- 'Young men's love then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes'.
- 'They stumble that run fast'.
- "These violent delights have violent ends'.
- "A glooming peace this morning with it brings,
The sun for sorrow will not show his head'.
- 'A plague a both your houses!
They have made worm's meat of me'.
- 'O serpent heart, hid with a lowering face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave'.
- 'It was a lark, the herald of the morn;
No nightingale'.
- 'Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds,
But fettle your fine joints against Thursday next'.
- 'Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field'.
- 'Famine is in thy cheeks,
Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes'.
- 'Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath,
hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.'
Published on: 04 Dec 2010
