A Midsummer Night's Dream Quotes

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“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
The lunatic, the lover and the poet
Are of imagination all compact:
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet's eye, in 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 shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
The lunatic, the lover and the poet
Are of imagination all compact:
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet's eye, in 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 shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“My soul is in the sky.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“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.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
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.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“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.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,
To die upon the hand I love so well.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
To die upon the hand I love so well.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“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.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Love's stories written in love's richest books.
To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition,
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition,
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Thus I die. Thus, thus, thus.
Now I am dead,
Now I am fled,
My soul is in the sky.
Tongue, lose thy light.
Moon take thy flight.
Now die, die, die, die.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
Now I am dead,
Now I am fled,
My soul is in the sky.
Tongue, lose thy light.
Moon take thy flight.
Now die, die, die, die.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“For you, in my respect, are all the world.
Then how can it be said I am alone
When all the world is here to look on me?”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
Then how can it be said I am alone
When all the world is here to look on me?”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Take pains. Be perfect.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“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.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
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.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“If we shadows have offended,
Know 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.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
Know 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.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania”
― A Midsummer Nights Dream
― A Midsummer Nights Dream
“O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“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”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
I will lead them up and down
I am feared in field in town
Goblin, lead them up and down”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“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.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
could ever hear by tale or history,
the course of true love never did run smooth.”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“It is not night when I do see your face,
Therefore I think I am not in the night;
Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company,
For you in my respect are all the world:
Then how can it be said I am alone,
When all the world is here to look on me?”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
Therefore I think I am not in the night;
Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company,
For you in my respect are all the world:
Then how can it be said I am alone,
When all the world is here to look on me?”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream