A Midsummer Nights Dream Quotes

Bottom the Weaver: Since lion vile hath here deflowered my dear...

Peter Quince: DEVOURED.

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Bottom: And what do they call you?

Titania: Titania

Bottom: [looking down at her breasts] I'm not surprised.

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Bottom: I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream; past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Methought I was - -man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was - -and methought I had - -man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say
[chuckling]

Bottom: what methought I was and what methought I had.
[breaks into uncontrollable laughter and suddenly brays like a jackass]

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Bottom: To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.

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Demetrius, in Love with Hermia: Lysander, yield your crazed title to my certain right.

Lysander: You have her father's love, Demetrius. Let me have Hermia's. You marry him.

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Demetrius, in Love with Hermia: Where are Lysander and fair Hermia? The one I'll slay; the other slayeth me.

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Francis Flute: Asleep, my love? What, dead, my dove?

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Hermia, in Love with Lysander: [to Helena] How low am I, you painted maypole? Speak! How low am I? I am not yet so low but that my nails can reach into your eyes!

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Lysander: Helena, I love you, by my life I do!

Demetrius, in Love with Hermia: I say I love you more than he can do!

Lysander: If you say so, withdraw, and prove it too.

Demetrius, in Love with Hermia: Come!

Lysander: Come!

Demetrius, in Love with Hermia: Quick!

Lysander: Quick!

Demetrius, in Love with Hermia: Come quick!

Lysander: Quick, come!
[They draw swords]

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Lysander: Hermia, the course of true love never did run smooth.

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Lysander: The course of true love never did run smooth.

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Oberon, King of the Fairies: Ill-met by moonlight, proud Titania!

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Puck: Lord, what fools these mortals be!

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Puck: Up and down, up and down, / I will lead them up and down. / I am feared in field and town. / Goblin lead them up and down.

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Quince, the Carpenter: Come, sit down, every mother's son, and rehearse your parts. And we will do it in action as we will do it before the duke. Pyramus, you begin.

Bottom: Well, I begin. Oh, Thisny!

Quince, the Carpenter: And when you have spoken your speech...

Bottom: Then I stop.

Quince, the Carpenter: No, no.

Bottom: Well, then I go on.

Quince, the Carpenter: No, no! Then you enter into that brake; and so everyone according to his cue. Thisby! Stand forth. Speak, Pyramus.

Bottom: Oh, Thisny, the flowers -...

Quince, the Carpenter: "Oh, Thisby."

Bottom: This-nee.

Quince, the Carpenter: This-bee!

Bottom: Nay!

Quince, the Carpenter: Ay!

Bottom: Nay!

Quince, the Carpenter: Ay!

Bottom: This
[he pulls his copy of the script from his waist]

Bottom: ... This
[he reads the scroll and scowls]

Bottom: ... This... neebay. "The flowers of odious - -"

Quince, the Carpenter: Odorous, odorous!

Bottom: Odorous, odorous. The flowers odi - - the flowers odorous savors sweet. "Oh, Thisby, the flowers of odorous savors sweet; so have thy breath...
[He gets a whiff of Flute's breath and recoils]

Bottom: Oh, Thisby, my dearest Thisby dear. But hark!"
[Flute erupts into a coughing fit.

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Quince, the Carpenter: Nick Bottom, you are set down for... Pyramus.

Bottom: I play Pyramus! I play Pyramus! I play Pyramus!... What is Pyramus?

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Theseus: [Reveiewing possible plays to be presented] "Battle with the Centaurs," to be sung by an Athenian eunuch to the harp. We'll none of that.

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Theseus: Merry and tragical? Tedious and brief? That is hot ice and wonderous strange snow.

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Titania: Come, my lord, and in our flight / Tell me how it came this night / That I sleeping here was found / With these mortals on the ground.

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Titania: What's your name?

Bottom: Bottom. But you can call me Booty.

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Tom Snout: [Puck has turned Bottom into a donkey] Bottom, thou art changed. What do I see on thee?

Bottom the Weaver: What do you see? What; do you see an ass' head of your own, do you?

Peter Quince: [backing away] Bless me. Thou art translated.
[all run off, leaving Bottom alone on the stage]

Bottom the Weaver: Why do they run away? I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of me.

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Bottom the Weaver: 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.

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Bottom: I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream; past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Methought I was - -man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was - -and methought I had - -man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say
[chuckling]

Bottom: what methought I was and what methought I had.
[breaks into uncontrollable laughter and suddenly brays like a jackass]

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Bottom the Weaver: 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. / Methought I was... / There's no man can tell what. / Methought I was... / Methought I had... / Man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say what I had.

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Bottom the Weaver: Since lion vile hath here deflowered my dear...

Peter Quince: DEVOURED.

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Demetrius, in Love with Hermia: Lysander, yield your crazed title to my certain right.
Lysander: You have her father's love, Demetrius. Let me have Hermia's. You marry him.

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Helena: I am your spaniel. And Demetrius, the more you beat me, I will fawn on you. Use me - but as your spaniel. Spurn me, strike me, neglect me, lose me, but give me leave, unworthy as I am, to follow you.

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Hermia, in Love with Lysander: [to Helena] How low am I, you painted maypole? Speak! How low am I? I am not yet so low but that my nails can reach into your eyes!

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Lysander: Hermia, the course of true love never did run smooth.

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Theseus: [Reveiewing possible plays to be presented] Battle with the Centaurs, to be sung by an Athenian eunuch to the harp. We'll none of that.

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