Romeo and Juliet

I'm starting a new section of my blog: my favorite lines and quotes from what I read.

Romeo and Juliet

Quotes:

Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire a sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears.
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.
(Act 1.1: 199-203)

Benvolio Be ruled by me: forget to think of her.
Romeo O teach me how I should forget to think.
Benvolio By giving liberty unto thine eyes.
Examine other beauties.
(Act 1.1: 234-37)
***How true that is! And yet, most of the time, I find it impossible to forget.***

Why rail'st thou on thy birth, the heaven, and earth,
Since birth and heaven and earth all three do meet
In thee at once, which thou at once wouldst lose.
(Act 3.3: 119-121)

For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
(Act 5.3:309-310)