A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Quotes
1.
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
2.
“So quick bright things come to confusion.”
3.
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
4.
“Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorough fire…”
5.
“Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.”
6.
“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite overcanopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet muskroses and with eglantine.”
7.
“You spotted snakes with double tongue,
Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen;
Newts and blindworms, do not wrong,
Come not near our Fairy Queen.”
8.
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
9.
“And though she be but little, she is fierce.”
10.
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact.”
11.
“The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.
Lover, to bed, ‘tis almost fairy time.”
12.
“If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.”
13.
To live a barren sister all your life,
Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.
14.
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.
15.
I'll put a girdle round about the earth
In forty minutes.
16.
My heart
Is true as steel.
17.
What hempen home-spuns have we swaggering here,
So near the cradle of the fairy queen?
18.
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart.
19.
Cupid is a knavish lad,
Thus to make poor females mad.
20.
My Oberon! what visions have I seen!
Methought I was enamoured of an ass.
21.
I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.
22.
Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
23.
Merry and tragical! tedious and brief!
That is, hot ice and wondrous strange snow.
24.
The best in this kind are but shadows, and the worst are no worse, if
imagination amend them.
25.
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.