More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
Love is a smoke rais’d with the fume of sighs;
Being purg’d, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes; Being vex’d, a sea nourish’d with lovers’ tears.
What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
when she dies, with beauty dies her store.
One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun.
It is an honour that I dream not of.
If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.
ROMEO I dreamt a dream to-night. MERCUTIO And so did I. ROMEO Well, what was yours? MERCUTIO 55 That dreamers often lie. ROMEO In bed asleep, while they do dream things true.
If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.
ROMEO 70 With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls; For stony limits cannot hold love out, And what love can do, that dares love attempt.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, 140 My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
These violent delights have violent ends 10 And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
But Romeo’s name speaks heavenly eloquence.
FRIAR O, then I see that madmen have no ears. ROMEO How should they, when that wise men have no eyes?
