96 Midsummer Quotes
Following is our list of midsummer quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about midsummer nights dream.
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Famous Midsummer Quotes
Summer's lease hath all too short a date. — William Shakespeare
Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. — Mark Twain
The summer night is like a perfection of thought. — Wallace Stevens
Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor. — Derek Walcott
What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. — Gertrude Jekyll
The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul. — Mary C. Ames
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. — Thomas Carlyle
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. — Wallace Stevens
Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade. — Charles Dickens
O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather. — Helen Hunt Jackson
O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather. — Helen Hunt
Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp - everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs. — E. B. White
The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. — Natalie Babbitt
This is the divine moment when we can hold the fairest blossom of spring in one hand and the sweetest flowers of early summer in the other. — Patience Strong
One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter. — Henry David Thoreau
Short Midsummer Quotes
- Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad. — William Shakespeare
- All's well that ends well. — John Heywood
- All is well that ends well — Emily Rodda
- One sees more devils than vast hell can hold — Sayings
- As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer. — William Shakespeare
- 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
- 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
- The object of art is to give life a shape. Midsummer Nights Dream — William Shakespeare
- I am that merry wanderer of the night. — William Shakespeare
Demetrius Quotes
It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had, - being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity." — Athenaeus
O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena — William Shakespeare
You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him! — William Shakespeare
Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother. — William Shakespeare
DEMETRIUS Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. LYSANDER You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him. — William Shakespeare
Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born? When at your hands did I deserve this scorn? Is't not enough, is't not enough, young man, That I did never, no, nor never can, Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye, But you must flout my insufficiency? — William Shakespeare
Midsummer Nights Dream Quotes
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
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. — William Shakespeare
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
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
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
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
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
Mid Summer Nights Dream Quotes
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
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
Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania — William Shakespeare
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
People Writing About Midsummer
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 William Shakespeare |
4052 | 36000 |
 Wallace Stevens |
277 | 1000 |
 Mark Twain |
2433 | 47813 |
 Derek Walcott |
53 | 793 |
 Gertrude Jekyll |
19 | 746 |
 Mary C. Ames |
13 | 93 |
More Midsummer Quotes
Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit. — Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
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
We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches,--at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene; their sunny lives onthe sand, amid the beach-grass and bayberries, their companion a cow, their wealth a jag of driftwood or a few beach plums, and their music the surf and the peep of the beech-bird. — Henry David Thoreau
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
Actually I think 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' could sit very very perfectly in the middle of a Disney world I think. — Kenneth Branagh
The quality of life, which in the ardour of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer. — Henry Beston
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
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
I awoke in the Midsummer not-to-call night, in the white and the walk of the morning — Gerard Manley Hopkins
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
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