| Titanic to Theseus | These are the forgeries of jealousy. And never, since the middle summer’s spring. Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead. By paved fountain or by rushy brook. Or in the beached margent of the sea. To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, but with thy brawls, thou hast disturbed our sport. |
| Egeus to Theseus about Lysander | This man hath bewitched the bosom of my child |
| Bottom to the other actors | Let me play the lion too. I will roar that I will do any man’s heart good to hear me. I will roar that I will make the Duke say, “Let him roar again, Let him Roar again” |
| Oberon to Puck | Fetch me that flower; the herb I showed thee once, the juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid. Will make man or woman madly dote upon the next live creature that it sees. |
| Helena to Demetrius | The more you beat me I will fawn on you. Use me but as you spaniel; spurn me, strike me, neglect me, lost me; only give me leave, unworthy as i am to follow you. |
| Puck to the sleeping Lysander | Night and silence! Who is here? Weeds of Athens does he wear. This is he my master said despised the Athenian maid. |
| Demetrius to Helena | You do impeach you modesty too much, to leave the city and commit yourself. Into the hands of one who loves you not. |
| Oberon to Titania as she sleeps | What thou seest when thou dost wake, do it for thy true love take; love and languish for his sake, be it ounce or cat or bear, Pard, or boar with bristled hair. |
| Helena to herself | No, no I am as ugly as a bear, For beasts that meet me do run away for fear. |
| Theses to Hippolyta | O, methinks how slow this cold moon wanes! She lingers my desires, like to a stepdame or a dowager long withering out a young man’s revenue. |
| Oberon to Puck | This is thy negligence. Still thou mistak’st, or else commit’st thy knaveries willfully. |
| Lysander to Hermia | Be certain, nothing truer, tis no jest that I do hate thee and love Helena |
| Puck about the 4 lovers | Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be! |
| Lysander | The course of true love never did run smooth |
| Egeus to Theses | And she is mine, and all my right of her I do estate unto Demetrius |
| Theseus to Hippolyta | The lunatic, the lover, and the poetAre of imagination all compact |
| Bottom to Titania | And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days |
| Bottom after he wakes up from being under the spell | I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass, if he go about t’expound this dream. |
| Hernia to Theseus | I would my father look’d but with my eyes |
| Helena to herself | Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. |
| Lysander to Helena | Not Hermia but Helena I love/ who would not change a raven for a dove? |
| Robin/Puck at the end | If we shadows have offended, think but this and all is mended. That you have but slumbered here while these visions did appear. |
A mIdsummer Night’s Dream Quotes
July 16, 2019