Important Quotations Explained
1. But
soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
It
is the east, and 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. . . .
The
brightness of her cheek would shame those stars
As
daylight doth a lamp; her eye in heaven
Would
through the airy region stream so bright
That
birds would sing and think it were not night.
2. O
Romeo, Romeo,
wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny
thy father and refuse thy name,
Or if thou
wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I’ll no
longer be a Capulet.
3. O,
then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . .
She
is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes
In
shape no bigger than an agate stone
On the
forefinger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team
of little atomi
Athwart men’s noses as they
lie asleep.
4. From
forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A
pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,
Whose
misadventured piteous overthrows
Doth with
their death bury their parents’ strife. . . .
O,
I am fortune’s fool! . . .
Then I defy you,
stars.
