Quotes

the Pilgrim and the Saint

Romeo

"If I profane with my unworthinest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss."

Juliet

"Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, which mannerly devotion shows in this; For saints have hands that palmers' kiss."

Romeo

"Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?"

Juliet

"Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer

Romeo

"O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do; they pray, grant thou, lest fait turn to despair."

Juliet

"Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake."

Romeo

"Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take. Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged."

Juliet

"Then have my lips, the sin that they have took."

Romeo

"Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again."

Juliet

"You kiss by the book."

~Romeo and Juliet play, Shakespeare

I've become slightly obsessed with Shakespeare these last months, and this is my favourite part of Romeo & Juliet <3