A Midsummer Night's Dream Quotes

"How happy some o'er other some can be! Through Athens I am thought as fair as she. But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so; he will not know what all but he do know."

Helena Act 1

"And I am sick when I not look on you."

Helena Act 2

"I'll follow thee, and make a heaven of hell, to die upon the hand I love so well."

Helena Act 2

"Can you not hate me, as I know you do, but you must join in souls to mock me too?"

Helena Act 3

"Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, the apprehend, more than cool reason ever comprehends."

Theseus Act 5

"I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of me; to fright me, if they could."

Bottom Act 3

"Full of vexation, come I, with complaint against my child, my daughter Hermia."

Egeus Act 1

"True, he hath my love, and what is mine my love shall render him. And what is mine, and all my right of her I do estate unto Demetrius."

Egeus Act 1

"Nay, good Lysander. For sake, my dear, lie further off yet do not lie so near."

Hermia Act 2

"Helena, adieu. As you on him, Demetrius dote on you!"

Lysander Act 1

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

Lysander Act 1

"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.""

Nick Bottom Act 1

"Fare thee well, nymph: ere he do leave this grove, thou shalt fly him, and he shall seek thy love."

Oberon Act 2

"What hast thou done? Thou hast mistaken quite, and laid the love juice on some truelove's sight. Of thy misprision must perforce ensue some true love turned, and not a false turned true."

Oberon Act 3

"For Oberon is passing fell and wrath, because that she has her attendant hath a lovely boy, stolen from an Indian king; she never had so sweet a changeling. And jealous Oberon would have the child knight of his train, to trace the forests wild."

Puck Act 2

"Who is here? Weeds of Athens he doth wear: This is he, my master said, despised the Athenian maid; and here the maiden, sleeping sound, on the dank and dirty ground."

Puck Act 2

"I led them on in this distracted fear, and left sweet Pyramus translated there: when in that moment, so it came to pass, Titania waked, and straightway loved an ass."

Puck Act 3

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

Puck Act 3

"What hempen homespuns have we swagg'ring here, so near the cradle of the Fairy Queen? What, a play toward! I'll be an auditor; an actor too perhaps, if I see cause."

Puck Act 3

"If we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended; that you have but slumb'red here, while these visions did appear."

Puck Act 5