“Four days will quickly steep themselves in night; Four nights will quickly dream away the time” | Hippolyta |
“Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind so therefore winged Cupid is painted blind.” | Helena |
“I wooed thee with my sword and won thy love doing thee injuries.” | Theseus |
“I do intreat your grace to pardon me. I know not by what power I am made bold.” | Hermia |
“War, death, or sickness did lay to siege to it, making it momentany as a sound, swift as a shadow, short as any dream.” | Lysander |
“The most lamentable comedy, and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe.” | Quince |
“I’ll speak in a monstrous little voice, ‘Thisne, Thisne;’ ‘Ah, Pyramus, my lover dear! thy Thisbe dear, and lady dear!'” | Bottom |
“If it be, give it me, for I am slow of study.” | Snug |
“I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you an’t were any nightingale.” | Bottom |
“Over hill, over dale, thorough bush, thorough brier, over park, over pale.” | Fairy |
“Not for thy fairy kingdom. Fairies, away.” | Titania |
“Why should Titania cross her Oberon? I do but beg a little changeling boy, To be my henchman.” | Oberon |
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!” | Puck |
“Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! vile thing, let loose or I will shake thee from me like a serpent!” | Lysander |
“What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?” | Titania |
“I see their knavery: this is to make an ass of me; to fright me, if they could. | Bottom |
“Egeus, I will overbear your will; For in the temple, by and by, with us these couples shall eternally be knit.” | Theseus |
“Which is as brief as I have known a play; But by ten words, my lord, it is too long, which makes it tedious.” | Philostrate |
“If we offend, it is with our good will. That you should think, we come not to offend, but with good will.” | Quince |
“This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard.” | Hippolyta |
“If we shadows have offended think but this, and all is mended, that you have but slumber’d here, while these visions did appear. | Puck |
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Quote Test
July 24, 2019