On Stage
I would my father looked but with my eyes.
Hermia, Act 1, Scene 1
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Lysander, Act 1, Scene 1
So quick bright things come to confusion.
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
Nay, faith, let not me play a woman; I have a beard coming.
Flute, Act 1, Scene 2
Have you the lion’s part written? Pray you, if it be, give it me, for I am slow of study.
Snug, Act 1, Scene 2
Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.
Oberon, Act 2, Scene 1
I'll put a girdle round about the earth
In forty minutes.
Puck, Act 2, Scene 1
I love thee not, therefore pursue me not.
Demetrius, Act 2, Scene 1
I am your spaniel: And, Demetrius,
The more you beat me, I will fawn on you.
Helena, Act 2, Scene 1
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite overcanopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.
Oberon, Act 2, Scene 1
To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.
Bottom, Act 3, Scene 1
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
Puck, Act 3, Scene 2
She was a vixen when she went to school:
And though she be but little, she is fierce!
Helena, 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
My Oberon! What visions have I seen!
Methought I was enamour’d of an ass.
Titania, Act 4, Scene 1
Are you sure
That we are awake? It seems to me
That yet we sleep, we dream.
Demetrius, Act 4, Scene 1
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.
Bottom, Act 4, Scene 1
And, most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.
Bottom, Act 4, Scene 2
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.
Bottom (as Pyramus), Act 5, Scene 1
This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard.
Hippolyta, Act 5, Scene 1
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 slumber’d here,
While these visions did appear.
Puck, Act 5, Scene 1
