89 Midsummer Nights Dream Quotes

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The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night. — William Shakespeare

The course of true love never did run smooth. - William Shakespeare

The course of true love never did run smooth. — William Shakespeare

Lord, what fools these mortals be. — William Shakespeare

The star-crossed lovers - Suzanne Collins

The star-crossed lovers — Suzanne Collins

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. - Christopher Marlowe

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. — Christopher Marlowe

Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair. — John Milton

All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me. — William Shakespeare

Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night, You orphan heirs of fixed destiny, Attend your office and your quality. — William Shakespeare

The summer night is like a perfection of thought. — Wallace Stevens

They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above. — Yip Harburg

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players. — William Shakespeare

There was a star danced, and under that was I born. — William Shakespeare

This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o-erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire. — William Shakespeare

To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come. — William Shakespeare

Journeys end in lovers meeting. — William Shakespeare

Short Midsummer Nights Dream Quotes

  • What light through yonder window breaks? — William Shakespeare
  • A pair of star-crossed lovers. — William Shakespeare
  • If music be the food of love, play on. — William Shakespeare
  • Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. — William Shakespeare
  • The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun. — William Shakespeare
  • Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day. — Richard Crashaw
  • Summer's lease hath all too short a date. — William Shakespeare
  • Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange — Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Two lovely berries moulded on one stem; So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart. — William Shakespeare
  • Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun. — John Keats

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Midsummer nights dream quote Believe in your dreams. They were given to you for a reason.
Believe in your dreams. They were given to you for a reason.

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So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem. — William Shakespeare

Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad. — William Shakespeare

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. — William Shakespeare

Midsummer nights dream quote Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass away.

Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. Now am I dead, Now am I fled; My soul is in the sky: Tongue, lose thy light; Moon take thy flight. Now die, die, die, die, die. — William Shakespeare

One sees more devils than vast hell can hold — Sayings

I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. — William Shakespeare

Midsummer nights dream quote Reading is dreaming with open eyes.
Reading is dreaming with open eyes.

Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it. — William Shakespeare

Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream — William Shakespeare

Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth. — William Shakespeare

I am that merry wanderer of the night. — William Shakespeare

Midsummer Quotes

I think that's what makes many Swedes jealous of immigrant groups. You [immigrants] have a culture, an identity, a history, something that brings you together. And what do we have? We have Midsummer's Eve and such silly things. — Mona Sahlin

All's well that ends well. — John Heywood

All is well that ends well — Emily Rodda

Midsummer nights dream quote Always remember to fall asleep with a dream and wake up with a purpose.
Always remember to fall asleep with a dream and wake up with a purpose.

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. — William Shakespeare

Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go? Soon will the high Midsummer pomps come on, Soon will the musk carnations break and swell. — Matthew Arnold

To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content. — Donald Hall

Midsummer nights dream quote Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and and purpose instead of
Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.

Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and shutouts, streaks and slumps. — Roger Angell

As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer. — William Shakespeare

Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness. — William Shakespeare

All furnished, all in arms; All plum'd like estridges that with the wind Bated like eagles having lately bathed; Glittering in golden coats like images; As full of spirit as the month of May And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls. — William Shakespeare

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More Midsummer Nights Dream Quotes

A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh. — Stephen King

The object of art is to give life a shape. Midsummer Nights Dream — William Shakespeare

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity — Sayings

To you your father should be as a god. — William Shakespeare

I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows. — William Shakespeare

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. — William Shakespeare

So quick bright things come to confusion.​​​​​​ — William Shakespeare

So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends. — William Shakespeare

Actually I think 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' could sit very very perfectly in the middle of a Disney world I think. — Kenneth Branagh

In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! — Sayings

A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing. — William Shakespeare

But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. — William Shakespeare

And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd — William Shakespeare

Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down — William Shakespeare

O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena — William Shakespeare

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. — William Shakespeare

Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania — William Shakespeare

I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream. — Blythe Danner

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, From earth to heaven. — William Shakespeare

The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven. — William Shakespeare

Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! — William Shakespeare

To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end. — William Shakespeare

Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities. — William Shakespeare

I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element. — Kenneth Branagh

I'd love to play Puck in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' — Daniel Radcliffe

I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream. — Dorothy L. Sayers

I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.' — Zoe Tapper

We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously. — William Shakespeare

Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so; And, being done, thus Wall away doth go. — William Shakespeare

If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look. — Jasper Fforde

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