Read some of the well-known quotes in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Two lovers embrace. They are reflected in the shiny black floor.
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2005), directed by Gregory Doran.

The course of true love never did run smooth.
(Lysander, Act 1 Scene 1)

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, 
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
(Helena, Act 1 Scene 1)

I must go seek some dewdrops here,
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
(Fairy, Act 2 Scene 1)

Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.
(Oberon, Act 2 Scene 1)

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:
There sleeps Titania sometime of the night, 
Lulled in these flowers with dances and delight.
(Oberon, Act 2 Scene 1)

Bless thee, Bottom! Bless thee! Thou art translated.
(Quince, Act 3 Scene 1)

What angel wakes me from my flow’ry bed?
(Titania, Act 3 Scene 1)

To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.
(Bottom, Act 3 Scene 1)

O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd.
She was a vixen when she went to school,
And though she be but little, she is fierce.
(Helena, Act 3 Scene 2)

Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad.
(Puck, Act 3 Scene 2)

Jack shall have Jill, 
Nought shall go ill,
The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well.
(Puck, Act 3 Scene 2)

Methought I was enamoured of an ass.
(Titania, Act 4 Scene 1)

I have had a most rare vision. I had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was… 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.
(Bottom, Act 4 Scene 1)

...not a mouse 
Shall disturb this hallowed house.
I am sent with broom before,
To sweep the dust behind the door.
(Puck, Act 5 Scene 1)

If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
(Puck, Act 5 Scene 1)


 

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