Demetrius, in Love with Hermia Quotes in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Demetrius, in Love with Hermia Quotes:
-
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.
-
Demetrius, in Love with Hermia: Where are Lysander and fair Hermia? The one I'll slay; the other slayeth me.
-
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]
-
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?
-
Starveling - the Tailor: [Precariously gets up onto a chair, holding up a lantern to speak as the moon, and a thorn bush tied to a dog's collar in his other hand; all cheer as he manages to stand on the chair] This lanthorn doth the horned moon present; Myself the man...
Theseus - Duke of Athens: He should have worn horns on his head.
Starveling - the Tailor: This lanthorn doth the horned moon present; Myself the man i' the moon do seem to be. This do...
Theseus - Duke of Athens: This is the greatest error of all the rest: the man should be put into the lantern.
Starveling - the Tailor: This lan...
Theseus - Duke of Athens: How is it else the man i' the moon?
Starveling - the Tailor: This lantern doth...
Hippolyta - Queen of the Amazons - Betrothed to Theseus: I am so weary of this moon: would he would change!
Starveling - the Tailor: [Near tears] This lantern...
Demetrius, in Love with Hermia: Proceed, Moon.
Starveling - the Tailor: [sighs, then speaks very quickly] All that I have to say, is, to tell you that the lantern is the moon; I, the man in the moon; this thorn-bush, my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog.
Browse more character quotes from A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)