Midsummer Night's Dream Quotes

#1. We will meet; and there we may rehearse most
obscenely and courageously.
Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc. 2

William Shakespeare

#2. Captain of our fairy band,
Helena is here at hand,
And the youth, mistook by me,
Pleading for a lover's fee.
Shall we their fond pageant see?
Lord, what fools these mortals be!

William Shakespeare

#3. WHAT WAS LOST IN THE COLLAPSE: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty. Twilight in the altered world, a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream in a parking lot in the mysteriously named town of St. Deborah by the Water, Lake Michigan shining a half mile away.

Emily St. John Mandel

#4. I considered several names, but Titania, a character from Shakespeare's 'Midsummer Night's Dream', was best able to portray the image I wanted for what is a fantastically elegant and sexy yacht.

John Caudwell

#5. Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.

Albert Einstein

#6. I've been kind of listening to the composer Britten and his rendition of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The opening track is a choral section where all the weird fairies, who are played by kids in the production, sing. It's a crazy opening melody and chord sequence - really amazing.

Dev Hynes

#7. 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

#8. I'd love to play Puck in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'

Daniel Radcliffe

#9. To my mind, 'Dear Brutus' stands halfway between Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 'Into the Woods'. Like them, it is a play about enchantment and disillusion, dreams and reality.

Michael Dirda

#10. N MY early boyhood I was enraptured by the great fairytale illustrators of the period: Arthur Rackham, Edmond Dulac, Kay Nielsen. As a schoolboy, I was to discover Aubrey Beardsley, and I was extremely fond of an edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream with most imaginative drawings by Heath Robinson,

John Gielgud

#11. But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy, lie further off." - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer Night's Dream The

Connie Willis

#12. A Midsummer Night's Dream?" "Of course," said Clarence. "A great piece on love.

Richelle Mead

#13. Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth,
But either it was different in blood-

William Shakespeare

#14. You mean like some kind of A Midsummer Night's Dream shtick? For real?

Carrie Vaughn

#15. 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is one of George Balanchine's greatest creations - and one of the greatest of all story ballets.

Robert Gottlieb

#16. ...if charity begins at home, empire begins in other men's homes.

Roger Casement

#17. I was thinking how most people don't make you feel much of anything at all. Don't make you feel like time spent with them has grace, like every moment in their company is a gift. But Finn did. Finn, my midsummer night's dream.

Jane Lotter

#18. For love is like a journey in mountainous country, up through the clouds, and down into the shadows to an unknown destination.

Ford Madox Ford

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. A Midsummer Night's Dream remains an enchanting work after four hundred years, but few would argue that it cuts to the very heart of human behaviour. What it does do is take, and give, a positive satisfaction in the joyous possibilities of verbal expression.

Bill Bryson

#22. I'll follow thee and make a heaven out of hell, To die by your hand which I love so well." - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Maegan Abel

#23. Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream

William Shakespeare

#24. I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.

Michael Jordan

#25. The world has room for many people who are content to live as humans, but only for a relative few intent upon living as giants or as gods. Twelfth,

Wendell Berry

#26. God never takes away something from your life without replacing it with something better.

Billy Graham

#27. 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

#28. The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

Lincoln Child

#29. The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

Ed Speleers

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

Jasper Fforde

#31. I love 'Richard III,' but in terms of a general play, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' has always been a big one for me. It's just so sexy.

Sean Maher

#32. We have something really exciting for you today, said Steve Jobs on October, 23, 2001, at a special press event on Apple's campus. Jobs had asked only a few dozen journalists to a product unveiling.

Leander Kahney

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

Kenneth Branagh

#34. Were the world mine...

Shakespeare Society

#35. No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

Edvard Munch

#36. 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

#37. Pal, if you don't take some wrong turns, you aren't going anywhere.

Avi

#38. You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?

Rumi

#39. I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.

Alice Walker

#40. It's the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him.

Amanda Craig

#41. Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so;
And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.

William Shakespeare

#42. Victory is the only option. And we will be victorious in Iraq.

Andrew Card