The quotations below are selected from the play: Romeo and Juliet.

   Romeo: O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!                   (line 44)
                It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
                Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear;
                Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
                So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,
                As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
                The measure done, I'll watch  her place of stand,
                And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.
                Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!
                For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

Comments: Romeo was such a play boy! Just a moment ago, he was in "deep love " with Rosaline, but look at him now! Compared to Juliet, what became of Rosaline? He was too young to know what love is. Love at first sight never works! It made him hesitate, shifting around uncertainly. Love involves lots of responsibility, and it's about dedication. He showed no sign of any of these, at all. Do you expect a happy ending?

Romeo: ... Would through the airy region stream so bright
            That birds would sing and think it were not night.
            See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
            That I might touch that cheek!

Juliet: Ay me!

Romeo: She speaks!
            O, speak again, bright angel! For thou art
            As glorious to this night being o'er my head,
            As is a winged messenger of heaven
            Unto the white-upturned windering eyes
            Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him
            When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds
            And sails upon the bosom of the air.

Juliet: 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.

Comments: From this paragraph, we can clear see that Romeo was actually a dreamer who had no sense of reality in him  any more. He had fallen in love with his greatest enemy's daughter Juliet. He was too proud of himself, he believed that he could do anything, go anywhere! A romantic person who expected a fairy-tale ending. However, history proved that they ended up in a total tragedy. Now, let's look back and suppose he didn't went to Juliet's garden, he could have been a little more patient, hearing none of Juliet's confession of her love towards him could've alleviate the pain.

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