Midsummer Night's Dream Quotes

• Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. Now am I dead, Now am I fled; My soul is in the sky: Tongue, lose thy light; Moon take thy flight. Now die, die, die, die, die.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Light, Sky

  "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

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• And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Together, Littles

  William Shakespeare, Phill Evans (2009). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format”, p.27, Shakespeare Comic Books

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• The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
  Doth glance from heaven to earth,
  From earth to heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Heaven, Rolling

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

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• Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania

  William Shakespeare

  Proud, Moonlight, Mets

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 60

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• So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.

  William Shakespeare

  Best Friend, Cute Friendship, Sisterhood

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 208

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• O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Looks, Midsummer

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• Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down

  William Shakespeare

  Fields, Towns, Midsummer

  William Shakespeare (2013). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.121, Callisto Media Inc

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• And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Love You, Choices

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.128

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• One sees more devils than vast hell can hold

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Devil, Hell

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

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• In the night, imagining some fear,
  How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Night, Bears

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

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• Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Night, Imagination

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

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• Quote: What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Bed, Midsummer

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 1, l. [131]

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• The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Heaven, Bows

  William Shakespeare, Phill Evans (2009). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format”, p.1, Shakespeare Comic Books

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• Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Purple, White

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 161

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• Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Running, Smooth Sailing

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 132

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• Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

  William Shakespeare

  Simplicity, Midsummer, Duty

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 82

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• The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name; such tricks hath strong imagination.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Eye, Science

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

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• Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Eye, Wings

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.128

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• Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Mad, Cupid

  "The Works of Shakespeare: Carefully Prepared from the Earliest and More Modern Editions".

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• I sat upon a promontory,
  And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back,
  Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,
  That the rude sea grew civil at her song;
  And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,
  To hear the sea-maid's music.

  William Shakespeare

  Song, Stars, Sea

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 149

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• The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Carpe Diem, Imagination Creativity

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

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• Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Moon, Night

  William Shakespeare, Phill Evans (2009). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format”, p.1, Shakespeare Comic Books

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• Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Relationship

  1595 Helena. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act1, sc.1, l.234-5.

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• So quick bright things come to confusion.​​​​​​

  William Shakespeare

  Confusion, Midsummer, Spleen

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 141

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• I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Dream, Flower

  1595 Oberon. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 2, sc.1, l.249-52.

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