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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Halloween, Heart

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. [218]

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• So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Dead Poets Society, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2013). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.187, Callisto Media Inc

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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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• All is well that ends well

  Emily Rodda

  Wise, Drama, Italian

  Emily Rodda (2008). “The Key to Rondo”, p.332, Scholastic Inc.

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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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• I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Dream, Sweet

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 249

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• But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd
  Than that which withering on the virgin thorn
  Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Flower, Rose

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 67

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• Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Dignity, Cupid

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 226

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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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• 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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• I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Past, Men

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. [211]

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• If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call; So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Dream, Liars

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 2, l. 54

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• All's well that ends well.

  John Heywood

  Wise, Wisdom, Drama

  John Heywood (1867). “The proverbs and epigrams of John Heywood: with an app. of variations”, p.21

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• O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, School, Littles

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

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• Lord, what fools these mortals be!

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Dream, Stupid People

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 115

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• If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Halloween, Thinking

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 2, l. 54

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• The course of true love never did run smooth.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Summer

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

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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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