This download includes 10 posters featuring key quotes from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, plus a worksheet (in PDF and Word Doc formats) with these quotes on for students to make notes on as you read through the play.

Romeo and Juliet key quotes

• A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life – Prologue
• My only love sprung from my only hate – Juliet, Act I, Scene IV
• Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night – Romeo, Act I, Scene V
• 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 – Juliet, Act II, Scene II
• Tis but thy name that is mine enemy. Thou art thyself, though not a Montague – Juliet, Act II, Scene II
• What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet – Juliet, Act II, Scene II
• These violent delights have violent ends – Friar Lawrence, Act II, Scene VI
• Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man – Mercutio, Act III, Scene I
• A plague o’both your houses – Mercutio, Act III, Scene I
• For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo – Prince, Act V, Scene III

For more quote posters and worksheets for Shakespeare plays check out our collection. Browse more Romeo and Juliet KS3 and KS4 resources.

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