A Midsummer Night’s Dream Quotes

So quick bright things come to confusion.

– William Shakespeare

Swift as a shadow, short as any dream;
Brief as the lightning in the collied night.

– William Shakespeare

Masters, spread yourselves.

– William Shakespeare

This is Ercles’ vein, a tyrant’s vein.

– William Shakespeare

I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you, as ’twere any nightingale.

– William Shakespeare

The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale.

– William Shakespeare

Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorough fire,
I do wander everywhere.

– William Shakespeare

Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.

– William Shakespeare

And the imperial votaress passed on,
In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Yet marked 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

The cowslips tall her pensioners be:
In their gold coats spots you see;
Those be rubies, fairy favours,
In those freckles live their savours:
I must go seek some dewdrops here
And hang a pearl in every cowslip’s ear.

– William Shakespeare

My heart
Is true as steel.

– William Shakespeare

You spotted snakes with double tongue,
Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen;
Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong,
Come not near our fairy queen.

– William Shakespeare

A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.

– William Shakespeare

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

What hempen home-spuns have we swaggering here,
So near the cradle of the fairy queen?

– William Shakespeare

Out of this wood do not desire to go.

– William Shakespeare

Nay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming.

– William Shakespeare

What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?

– William Shakespeare

Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated.

– William Shakespeare

I’ll put a girdle round about the earth
In forty minutes.

– William Shakespeare

Since once 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

A sweet-face man; a proper man, as one shall see in a summer’s day.

– William Shakespeare

Weaving spiders, come not here;
Hence, you long-legged spinners, hence!
Beetles black, approach not near;
Worm nor snail, do no offence.

– William Shakespeare

My Oberon! what visions have I seen!
Methought I was enamoured of an ass.

– William Shakespeare

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

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

– William Shakespeare

Jack shall have Jill;
Nought shall go ill;
The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well.

– William Shakespeare

The lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen’s beauty in a brow of Egypt:
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 shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.

– William Shakespeare

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

– William Shakespeare