You know the old saying about the course of true love never running smooth but can you name the frustrated lover who uttered it in a moment of crisis? The goal of our A Midsummer Night’s Dream Quotes Quiz is to see if you can tell who said these famous lines. Listen to the different voices of the fairies, the nobles and the working men.

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MSND Quotes Quiz Questions
- “Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
- “The course of true love never did run smooth.”
- “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”
- “I know a bank where the wild thyme blows.”
- “Though she be but little, she is fierce.”
- “I am your spaniel, and, Demetrius, the more you beat me, I will fawn on you.”
- “Mine ear is much enamour’d of thy note.”
- “I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell, to die upon the hand I love so well.”
- “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact.”
- “Up and down, up and down, I will lead them up and down.”
- “My Oberon, what visions have I seen! Methought I was enamoured of an ass.”
- “I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream.”
- “Swift as a shadow, short as any dream.”
- “I’ll put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes.”
- “O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent to set against me for your merriment.”
- “Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
- “I am amazed at your passionate words. I scorn you not: it seems that you scorn me.”
- “The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen.”
- “Gentles, do not reprehend. If you pardon, we will mend.”
- “I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.”
- “Lovers and madmen have such seething brains.”
- “The poet’s eye, in fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to earth.”
- “Jack shall have Jill; nought shall go ill.”
- “Bless thee, Bottom, bless thee! Thou art translated.”
- “Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace.”
- “The moon, methinks, looks with a watery eye.”
- “The fairy land buys not the child of me.”
- “Thou shalt fly him, and he shall seek thy love.”
- “My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememberest since once I sat upon a promontory.”
- “Call Philostrate.”
