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Question:What is your favorite quote from the play "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare?
And what does it mean in modern English?

A link with the play:
http://nfs.sparknotes.com/romeojuliet/


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: What is your favorite quote from the play "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare?
And what does it mean in modern English?

A link with the play:
http://nfs.sparknotes.com/romeojuliet/

i love the part right after romeo and juliet got secretly married and he has to leave as they kiss and she says, "parting is such sweet-sorrow"

or when they first meet and are talking about their kiss being a sin. i don't know the exact line, but it's kinda cute.

"To be, or not to be! That is the question!"

....... oh wait, that's Hamlet.

Mercutio: Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o' both your houses!

When he says he is a grave man it is a play on words. "Grave" as in somber or solemn and "Grave" as in dead; in a grave. Then of course there is the great "a plague o' both your houses". Which of course Mercutio is putting his death on the Capulets AND the Montigues, even though he was killed by a Capulet...it was the fued that ultimately caused his death. Therefore BOTH families were responsible.

Do not swear on the moon, for it is unconsistant