Mid Summer Nights Dream Quotes

• 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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• 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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• Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.

  William Shakespeare

  Brain, Lovers, Fantasy

  1595 Theseus. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 5, sc.1, l.4-6.

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• A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.

  William Shakespeare

  Lions, Summer Nights, Midsummer

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 1, l. [32]

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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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• 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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• 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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• I am that merry wanderer of the night.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Dead Poets Society, Midsummer

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.129

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• To you your father should be as a god.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Should, Theseus

  1595 Theseus to Hermia. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act1, sc.1, l.47.

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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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• 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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• Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Dream, Halloween

  William Shakespeare, Terri Bourus, Peter Holland (2006). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.177, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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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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• 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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• Though she be but little, she is fierce!

  William Shakespeare

  Tattoo, Fitness, Zebras

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 323

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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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