Shakespeare coined many popular phrases that are still commonly used today. Here are some examples of Shakespeare's most familiar quotes from Romeo and Juliet. You just might be surprised to learn of all the everyday sayings that originally came from Shakespeare!
"Is love a tender thing? it is too rough, Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn." (Act I, Scene IV)
"If love be rough with you, be rough with love; Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down." (Act I, Scene IV)
"For you and I are past our dancing days." (Act I, Scene V)
"O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright." (Act I, Scene V)
"It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear." (Act I, Scene V)
"O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?" (Act II, Scene II)
"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!" (Act II, Scene II)
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other word would smell as sweet." (Act II, Scene II)
"Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow." (Act II, Scene II)
"See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek!" (Act II, Scene II)
"Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast." (Act II, Scene III)
"O! I am Fortune's fool!" (Act III, Scene I)
"Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty." (Act IV, Scene II)
"Tempt not a desperate man." (Act V, Scene III)
"For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo." (Act V, Scene III)
