Memorable quotes for
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) More at IMDbPro »

Bottom: I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream; past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Methought I was - -man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was - -and methought I had - -man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say
[chuckling]
Bottom: what methought I was and what methought I had.
[breaks into uncontrollable laughter and suddenly brays like a jackass]
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Lysander: Hermia, the course of true love never did run smooth.
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Puck: Lord, what fools these mortals be!
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Demetrius, in Love with Hermia: Lysander, yield your crazed title to my certain right.
Lysander: You have her father's love, Demetrius. Let me have Hermia's. You marry him.
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Quince, the Carpenter: Nick Bottom, you are set down for... Pyramus.
Bottom: I play Pyramus! I play Pyramus! I play Pyramus!... What is Pyramus?
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Demetrius, in Love with Hermia: Where are Lysander and fair Hermia? The one I'll slay; the other slayeth me.
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Quince, the Carpenter: Come, sit down, every mother's son, and rehearse your parts. And we will do it in action as we will do it before the duke. Pyramus, you begin.
Bottom: Well, I begin. Oh, Thisny!
Quince, the Carpenter: And when you have spoken your speech...
Bottom: Then I stop.
Quince, the Carpenter: No, no.
Bottom: Well, then I go on.
Quince, the Carpenter: No, no! Then you enter into that brake; and so everyone according to his cue. Thisby! Stand forth. Speak, Pyramus.
Bottom: Oh, Thisny, the flowers -...
Quince, the Carpenter: "Oh, Thisby."
Bottom: This-nee.
Quince, the Carpenter: This-bee!
Bottom: Nay!
Quince, the Carpenter: Ay!
Bottom: Nay!
Quince, the Carpenter: Ay!
Bottom: This
[he pulls his copy of the script from his waist]
Bottom: ... This
[he reads the scroll and scowls]
Bottom: ... This... neebay. "The flowers of odious - -"
Quince, the Carpenter: Odorous, odorous!
Bottom: Odorous, odorous. The flowers odi - - the flowers odorous savors sweet. "Oh, Thisby, the flowers of odorous savors sweet; so have thy breath...
[He gets a whiff of Flute's breath and recoils]
Bottom: Oh, Thisby, my dearest Thisby dear. But hark!"
[Flute erupts into a coughing fit. Bottom throws down his scroll, storms off, and is led back by Quince. He points accusatively at Flute]
Bottom: Thisny!
Quince, the Carpenter: [handing back Bottom's scroll] Thisby.
Bottom: "But hark, a voice! Stay you but here a while, and by and by I will to you appear."
[He exits the wrong way]
Quince, the Carpenter: Into that brake!
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Flute, the Bellows-Mender: "I'll meet thee, Pyramus, at Ninny's tomb."
Quince, the Carpenter: Ninny's?
Flute, the Bellows-Mender: Ninny's.
Quince, the Carpenter: Ninny's.
Flute, the Bellows-Mender: Ninny's.
Quince, the Carpenter: "Ninus' tomb", man!
Flute, the Bellows-Mender: [Flute begins to repeat Quince's words and gestures] Ninus' tomb, man!
Quince, the Carpenter: But you must not speak that yet!
Flute, the Bellows-Mender: But you must not speak that yet!
Quince, the Carpenter: Ohhh...
Flute, the Bellows-Mender: Ohhh...
Quince, the Carpenter: That you answer to Pyramus!
Flute, the Bellows-Mender: That you answer to Pyramus!
Quince, the Carpenter: You speak all your part at once, cues and all!
Flute, the Bellows-Mender: You speak all your part at once, cues... I won't play anymore.
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Bottom: To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.
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Lysander: Helena, I love you, by my life I do!
Demetrius, in Love with Hermia: I say I love you more than he can do!
Lysander: If you say so, withdraw, and prove it too.
Demetrius, in Love with Hermia: Come!
Lysander: Come!
Demetrius, in Love with Hermia: Quick!
Lysander: Quick!
Demetrius, in Love with Hermia: Come quick!
Lysander: Quick, come!
[They draw swords]
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Hermia, in Love with Lysander: [to Helena] How low am I, you painted maypole? Speak! How low am I? I am not yet so low but that my nails can reach into your eyes!
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Demetrius, in Love with Hermia: [Puck is leading Demetrius astray through a fog] Lysander! Speak again! You runaway. You coward. Are you fled?
Puck: You coward! Are you bragging to the stars? Telling the bushes that you look for wars, and wilt not come?
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Oberon, King of the Fairies: Ill-met by moonlight, proud Titania!
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