Quince, the Carpenter Quotes in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)

Quince, the Carpenter: Nick Bottom, you are set down for... Pyramus.

Bottom: I play Pyramus! I play Pyramus! I play Pyramus!... What is Pyramus?

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!

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.