A Midsummer Nights Dream Quotes
Bottom the Weaver: Since lion vile hath here deflowered my dear...
Peter Quince: DEVOURED.
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.
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]
[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.
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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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]
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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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.
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?
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.
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.
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]
[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.
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.
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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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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