Hermia | “O, hell! to choose love by another’s eyes.” |
Puck | “I’ll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes.” |
Bottom | “A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.” |
Puck | “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” |
Puck | “When thou wakest, thou takest true delight in the sight of thy former lady’s eye.” |
Egeus | “Full of vexation come I, with complaint against my child, my daughter Hermia.” |
Lysander | “If thou lovest me, then steal forth from thy father’s house tonight.” |
Bottom | “Let me play the lion too.” |
Puck | “Thou speakest aright; I am the merry wanderer of the night I jest to Oberon and make him smile.” |
Titania | “And this same progeny of evil comes. From our debate, from our dissention: We are their parents and original.” |
Oberon | “Thou shalt know the man by the Athenian garments he hath on.” |
Helena | “I am your spaniel.” |
Lysander | “Not Hermia but Helena I love; who would not change a raven for a dove?” |
Helena | “Most ungrateful maid! Have you conspired, have you with these contrived to bait me with this foul derision?” |
Titania | “How came these thing to pass? O! How mine eyes do loathe his visage now!” |
Theseus | “I woo’d thee with my sword” |
Bottom | “I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you, as ’twere any nightingale.” |
Egeus | “Stand forth, Demetrius. My noble lord; this man hath my consent to marry her. Stand forth, Lysander: and my gracious duke, this man hath bewitch’d the bosom of my child.” |
Egeus | “As she is mine, I may dispose of her: Which shall be either to this gentlemen [Demetrius] or to her death, according to our law.” |
Theseus | “Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; know of your youth, examine well your blood, whether, if you yield not to your father’s choice, you can endure the livery of a nun.” |
Hermia | “So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord, Ere I will yield my virgin patent up Unto his lordship.” |
Lysander | “I am, my lord, as well derived as he, as well possess’d, my love is more than his; my foruntes every way as fairly rank’d, if not with vantage.” |
Theseus | “For you, fair Hermia, look you arm yourself to fit your fancies to your father’s will, or else the law of Athens yields you up.” |
Puck | “Thou speak’st aright; I am that merry wanderer of the nigh.,” |
Titania | “But she, being mortal, of that boy did die; and for her sake do I rear up her boy; and for her sake I will not part with him.” |
Oberon | “Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew’d thee once: the juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid, will make of man or woman madly dote, upon the next live creature that it sees.” |
Demetrius | “You do impeach your modesty too much, to leave the city and commit yourself into the of one that loves you not; trust the opportunity of the night.” |
Hermia | “You thief of love what have you come by night and stolen my love’s heart from him.” |
Helena | “She was a vixen when she went to school; and though she by but little, she is fierce.” |
Hermia | “If thou hast slain Lysander in his sleep, being o’er shoes in blood, plunge in the deep, and kill me too.” |
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Quotes
August 27, 2019