Appendix B
Famous A Midsummer Night's Dream Quotes:
"The course of true love never did run smooth." (Act I, Scene I)
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." (Act I, Scene I)
"O, hell! to choose love by another's eyes." (Act I, Scene I)
"I am slow of study." (Act I, Scene II)
"That would hang us, every mother's son." (Act I, Scene II)
"I'll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes." (Act II, Scene I)
"My heart Is true as steel." (Act II, Scene I)
"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." (Act II, Scene I)
"A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing." (Act III, Scene I)
"Lord, what fools these mortals be!" (Act III, Scene II)
"The true beginning of our end." (Act V, Scene I)
"For never anything can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it." (Act V, Scene I)
Famous Romeo and Juliet Quotes:
"Is love a tender thing? it is too rough, Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn." (Act I, Scene IV)
"If love be rough with you, be rough with love; Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down." (Act I, Scene IV)
"For you and I are past our dancing days." (Act I, Scene V)
"O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright." (Act I, Scene V)
"It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear." (Act I, Scene V)
"O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?" (Act II, Scene II)
"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!" (Act II, Scene II)
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other word would smell as sweet." (Act II, Scene II)
"Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow." (Act II, Scene II)
"See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek!" (Act II, Scene II)
"Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast." (Act II, Scene III)
"O! I am Fortune's fool!" (Act III, Scene I)
"Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty." (Act IV, Scene II)
"Tempt not a desperate man." (Act V, Scene III)
"For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo." (Act V, Scene III)
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