50 Important Quotes You Should Pay Attention to in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Quotes About Love

#11: Love can transpose to form and dignity.

• Section: Act 1 Scene 1
• Techniques: Syntax

#12: Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;/And therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind. 

• Section:  Act 1 Scene 1
• Techniques: Allusion, personification, symbolism, rhyme  

#13: Four happy days bring in/Another moon. 

• Section: Act 1 Scene 1
• Techniques: Symbolism, foreshadowing, syntax, enjambement 

#14: The course of true love never did run smooth…

• Section: Act 1 Scene 1
• Techniques: Ellipses, foreshadowing, high modality 

#15: A lover that kills himself, most gallant, for love.

• Section: Act 1 Scene 2
• Techniques: Contrast, paradox

#16: How canst thou thus for shame, Titania,/Knowing I know thy love to Theseus? 

• Section: Act 1 Scene 2
• Techniques: Enjambment, contrast

#17: And even for that do I love you the more.

• Section: Act 1 Scene 2
• Techniques: High modality 

#18: Do it for thy true love take./Love and languish for his sake.

• Section: Act 1 Scene 2
• Techniques: Juxtaposition, repetition

#19: Love takes the meaning in loves conference.

• Section: Act 1 Scene 2
• Techniques: Repetition, high modality 

#20: Flower of this purple dye,/Hit with Cupids archery,

• Section: Act 3 Scene 2
• Techniques: Allusion, colour symbolism

#21: With league whose date till death shall never end.

• Section: Act 3 Scene 2
• Techniques: Alliteration, syntax 

#22: Cupid is a knavish lad/Thus to make poor females mad.

• Section: Act 3 Scene 2
• Techniques: Allusion, juxtaposition, rhyme

#23: Jack shall have Jill./Nought shall go ill.

• Section: Act 3 Scene 2
• Techniques: Allusion, rhyme

#24: That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic…

• Section: Act 5 Scene 1
• Techniques: Juxtaposition, syntax 

Marriage Quotes In A Midsummer Night’s Dream

#25: Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth./Joy, gentle friends! Joy and fresh days of love

• Section: Act 5 Scene 1
• Techniques: Positive connotation, use of exclamation, repetition 

#26: But I will wed thee in another key,/With pomp, with triumph, and with revelling  

• Section: Act 1 Scene 1
• Techniques: Anaphora, symbolism

Fairies Quotes

#27: And this weak and idle theme,/No more yielding but a dream,

• Section: Act 5 Scene 1
• Techniques: Breaking the 4th wall, metaphor iambic tetrameter, rhyme

#28: How now, spirit? Whither wander you?

• Section: Act 1 Scene 2
• Techniques: Repetition, questions

#29: And I serve the fairy queen/To dew her orbs upon the green.

• Section: Act 1 Scene 2
• Techniques: Colour symbolism, mystical imagery 

#30: I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again./Mine ear is much enamoured of thy note. 

• Section: Act 3 Scene 1
• Techniques: Syntax

#31: And laid the love juice on some true loves sight.

• Section: Act 3 Scene 2
• Techniques: Repetition, irony

Dreams Quotes

#32: Four days will quickly steep themselves in night./Four nights will quickly dream away the time.

• Section: Act 1 Scene 1
• Techniques: Anaphora, foreshadowing, symbolism, temporal imagery 

#33: That you have but slumbered here,/While these visions did appear;

• Section: Act 5 Scene 1 
• Techniques: Symbolism, enjambement, rhyme

#34: Doth the moon shine that night we play our play?

• Section: Act 3 Scene 1
• Techniques: Symbolism, foreshadowing, natural imagery 

#35: By some illusion see thou bring her here./I’ll charm his eyes against she do appear.

• Section: Act 3 Scene 2
• Techniques: Sibilance, symbolism 

#36: When they next wake, all this derision/Shall seem a dream and fruitless vision.

• Section: Act 3 Scene 2
• Techniques: Symbolism

#37: Are you sure/That we are awake? 

• Section: Act 4 Scene 1
• Techniques: Rhetorical question

#38: It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream./ Do not you think

• Section: Act 4 Scene 1
• Techniques: Syntax, symbolism, collective pronoun 

#39: More witnesseth than fancys images,

• Section: Act 5 Scene 1
• Techniques: Diction

#40: Our true intent is. All for your delight/We are not here.

• Section: Act 5 Scene 1
• Techniques: Syntax, collective pronoun

Social Hierarchy Quotes

#41: Turned her obedience (which is due to me)/To stubborn harshness.

• Section: Act 1 Scene 1
• Techniques: High modality, negative connotation 

#42: Which shall be either to this gentleman/Or to her death—according to our law/Immediately provided in that case.

• Section: Act 1 Scene 1
• Techniques: Imagery, diction 

#43: I would my father looked but with my eyes.

• Section: Act 1 Scene 1
• Techniques: Helpless tone, symbolism, juxtaposition, repetition 

#44: And she is mine, and all my right of her/I do estate unto Demetrius.

• Section: Act 1 Scene 1
• Techniques: High modality, possessive personal pronoun

#45: And yet a place of high respect with me/Than to be used as you use your dog?

• Section: Act 1 Scene 2
• Techniques: Imagery, rhetorical question, juxtaposition 

#46: The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well.

• Section: Act 3 Scene 2
• Techniques: Imagery

Quotes from Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

#47: What do you see? You see an ass head of your own, do you?

• Section: Act 3 Scene 1
• Techniques: Rhetorical question, humour, irony  

#48: I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. 

• Section: Act 4 Scene 1
• Techniques: Repetition, personal pronoun 

#49: 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.

• Section: Act 4 Scene 1
• Techniques: Sensory imagery, synecdoche, Biblical allusion (Corinthians) 

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

• Section: Act 3 Scene 1
• Techniques: High modality