A Midsummer Night's Dream Quotes

Quote 1: "Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour/ Draws on apace." Act 1, Scene 1, line 1

Quote 2: "With cunning hast thou filched my daughter's heart,/ Turned her obedience, which is due to me,/ to stubborn harshness." Act 1, Scene 1, lines 36-38

Quote 3: "Either to die the death or to abjure/ Forever the society of men." Act 1, Scene 1, lines 65-66

Quote 4: "She, sweet lady, dotes,/ Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry,/ Upon this spotted and inconstant man." Act 1, Scene 1, lines 109-110

Quote 5: "The course of true love never did run smooth." Act 1, Scene 1, line 134

Quote 6: "The more [Hermia] hate, the more [Demetrius] follows me." Act 1, Scene 1, line 198

Quote 7: "The more [Helena] love, the more [Demetrius] hateth me." Act 1, Scene 1, line 199

Quote 8: "Through Athens I [Helena] am thought as fair as she [Hermia]." Act 1, Scene 1, line 227

Quote 9: "You are that shrewd and knavish sprite/ Called Robin Goodfellow." Act 2, Scene 1, line 33

Quote 10: "And sometimes lurk I [Puck] in a gossip's bowl." Act 2, Scene 1, line 47

Quote 11: "Not for thy [Oberon's] fairy kingdom" Act 2, Scene 1, line 144

Quote 12: "Thou [Titania] shalt not from this grove/ Till I torment thee for this injury." Act 2, Scene 1, line 146

Quote 13: "Make [Titania] render up her page to me." Act 2, Scene 1, line 185

Quote 14: "We cannot fight for love, as men may do;/ We should be wooed and were not made to woo./ I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,/ to die upon the hand I love so well." Act 2, Scene 1, lines 241-244

Quote 15: "Thou shalt know the man/ By the Athenian garments he hath on." Act 2, Scene 1, lines 263-264

Quote 16: "When thou wakest, it is thy dear:/ Wake when some vile thing is near." Act 2, Scene 2, lines 33-34

Quote 17: "Then end life when I [Lysander] end loyalty!" Act 2, Scene 2, line 63

Quote 18: "When thou [Lysander] wakest, let love forbid." Act 2, Scene 2, line 80

Quote 19: "Not Hermia but Helena I [Lysander] love." Act 2, Scene 2, line 113

Quote 20: "Methought [Hermia] a serpent eat my heart away, / And you sat smiling at his cruel prey." Act 2, Scene 2, line 150

Quote 21: "Thou [Bottom] art translated." Act 3, Scene 1, line 121

Quote 22: "What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?...On the first view to say, to swear, I [Titania] love thee [Bottom]." Act 3, Scene 1, lines 132, 144

Quote 23: "When in that moment, so it came to pass,/ Titania waked and straightway loved an ass." Act 3, Scene 2, lines 32-33

Quote 24: "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" Act 3, Scene 2, lines 115

Quote 25: "O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent
To set against me for your merriment:
If you we re civil and knew courtesy,
You would not do me thus much injury.
Can you not hate me, as I know you do,
But you must join in souls to mock me too?
If you were men, as men you are in show,
You would not use a gentle lady so;
To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts,
When I am sure you hate me with your hearts.
You both are rivals, and love Hermia;
And now both rivals, to mock Helena:
A trim exploit, a manly enterprise,
To conjure tears up in a poor maid's eyes
With your derision! none of noble sort
Would so offend a virgin, and extort
A poor soul's patience, all to make you sport." Act 2, Scene 2, lines 145-161

Quote 26: "Hang of, thou cat, thou burr! Vile thing, let loose,/ Or I [Lysander] will shake thee [Hermia] from me like a serpent!" Act 3, Scene 2, lines 260-261

Quote 27: "Two of both kinds makes up four...In your waking shall be shown: / Jack shall have Jill; / Nought shall go ill: / The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well." Act 3, Scene 2, lines 438-463

Quote 28: "May all to Athens back again repair / And think no more of this night's accidents / But as the fierce vexation of a dream." Act 4, Scene 1, lines 70-72

Quote 29: "My Oberon! What visions have I seen!/ Methought I was enamored of an ass." Act 4, Scene 1, lines 79-80

Quote 30: "I know you two are rival enemies:/ How comes this gentle concord in the world,/ That hatred is so far from jealousy,/ To sleep by hate, and fear no enmity?" Act 4, Scene 1, lines 146-149

Quote 31: "God's my life, stolen hence, and left me [Bottom] asleep! I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream." Act 4, Scene 1, lines 208-210

Quote 32: "He [Bottom] hath simply the best wit of any handicraft man in Athens." Act 4, Scene 2, line 10

Quote 33: "I never may believe / These antique fables, nor these fairy toys." Act 5, Scene 1, lines 2-3

Quote 34: "His [Bottom's] speech was like a tangled chain;/ Nothing impaired, but all disordered." Act 5, Scene 1, lines 123-124

Quote 35: "Beshrew my heart, but I pity the man." Act 5, Scene 1, line 295

Quote 36: "I [Puck] am sent with broom before, / To sweep the dust behind the door." Act 5, Scene 1, lines 396-397

Quote 37: "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, goodnight unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends." Act 5, Scene 1, lines 430-445