Romeo and Juliet Juliet Quotes

Juliet

Quote 25

JULIET
O, happy dagger,
This is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die.
(5.3.174-175)

Again with the sexual innuendo: Romeo's "dagger" is going to stay in Juliet's "sheath" forever. We're pretty sure you get this, even without knowing that, in Latin, "vagina" translates directly to "sheath." For these kids, there's almost no distinction between dying together and sleeping together.

Juliet > The Nurse

Quote 26

JULIET (gesturing towards Romeo)
What's he that follows here, that would not dance?
NURSE
I know not.
JULIET
Go ask his name. The Nurse goes. If he be marrièd.
My grave is like to be my wedding bed.
(1.5.146-149)

Juliet foreshadows her own death – her grave does become her wedding bed.

Juliet > Romeo

Quote 27

JULIET
O, think'st thou we shall ever meet again?

ROMEO
I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve
For sweet discourses in our time to come.

JULIET
O God, I have an ill-divining soul!
Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.
Either my eyesight fails or thou look'st pale.
(3.5.51-57)

When Juliet says she has "an ill-diving soul," she means that she has a premonition of Romeo's death. This, of course, foreshadows how she will see Romeo for the last time: with her in her tomb (5.3). (Tip: try thinking positive thoughts, Jules!)