William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream Quotes
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.
Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream
Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!
Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.
... and yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days...
Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh, Your vows to her and me, put in two scales, Will even weigh, and both as light as tales.
Get you gone, you dwarf, You minimus of hindering knotgrass made, You bead, you acorn!
Weaving spiders, come not here, Hence, you long legged spinners, hence! Beetles black, approach not here, worm nor snail, do no offense.
Yet but three come one more.Two of both kinds make up four.Ere she comes curst and sad.Cupid is a knavish lad.Thus to make poor females mad.
Shall we their fond pageant see?Lord, what fools these mortals be!
Be as thou wast wont to be.See as thou wast wont to see.
How now, spirit, whither wander you?
Lovers and madmen have such seething brainsSuch shaping fantasies, that apprehendMore than cool reason ever comprehends.
Four days will quickly steep themselves in nightsFour nights will quickly dream away the time.
I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well.
And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.