Quotes from workA Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595/96. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta . These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.
“I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,
To die upon the hand I love so well.”
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream”
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck, Act III, scene ii.
Variant: Shall we their fond pageant see?
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Lysander, Act I, scene i.
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.”
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Helena, Act I, scene i.
Variant: Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind".
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)
“And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.”
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“So quick bright things come to confusion.”
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“One sees more devils than vast hell can hold”
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell!”
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“How low am I, thou painted maypole?
(Hermia to Helena)”
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders
At out quaint spirits.”
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
