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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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"A Midsummer Night's Dream" Quotes

"A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare is a comedic tale of love, magic, and mistaken identities set in an enchanted forest where fairies manipulate the romantic entanglements of four young Athenians.

Quotes

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

William Shakespeare

foolishnesshuman nature

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

loveperception

Though she be but little, she is fierce!

William Shakespeare

strengthcharacter

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

dreamsmystery

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

William Shakespeare

imaginationmadnesslove

My soul is in the sky.

William Shakespeare

soultranscendence

Are you sure that we are awake? It seems to me that yet we sleep, we dream.

William Shakespeare

realitydreams

For never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

William Shakespeare

simplicitydutyacceptance

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

William Shakespeare

lovereason

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.

William Shakespeare

natureenchantment