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A Midsummer Night's Dream quotes
15 quotes from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. Source: Project Gutenberg e-text #1514 (public domain in the USA), the text this site’s reader shows. Each quote is copied exactly from that text and links to its passage in the reader; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against the reader’s text.
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
— Puck · Act III, Scene II — Another part of the wood
For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth.
— Lysander · Act I, Scene I — Athens. A room in the Palace of Theseus
She was a vixen when she went to school, And though she be but little, she is fierce.
— Helena · Act III, Scene II — Another part of the wood
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind.
— Helena · Act I, Scene I — Athens. A room in the Palace of Theseus
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.
— Oberon · Act II, Scene I — A wood near Athens
Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.
— Oberon · Act II, Scene I — A wood near Athens
I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.
— Bottom · Act IV, Scene I — The Wood
The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
— Theseus · Act V, Scene I — Athens. An Apartment in the Palace of Theseus
And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.
— Bottom · Act III, Scene I — The Wood
I’ll follow thee, and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well.
— Helena · Act II, Scene I — A wood near Athens
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.
— Theseus · Act V, Scene I — Athens. An Apartment in the Palace of Theseus
Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity.
— Helena · Act I, Scene I — Athens. A room in the Palace of Theseus
And the country proverb known, That every man should take his own, In your waking shall be shown: Jack shall have Jill; Nought shall go ill; The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well.
— Puck · Act III, Scene II — Another part of the wood
How low am I, thou painted maypole? Speak, How low am I?
— Hermia · Act III, Scene II — Another part of the wood
Are you sure That we are awake? It seems to me That yet we sleep, we dream.
— Demetrius · Act IV, Scene I — The Wood