Midsummer Quotes
25 quotes by 22 authors
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Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The Revelation of the Báb may be likened to the sun, its station corresponding to the first sign of the Zodiac—the sign Aries—which the sun…
— Shoghi Effendi
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Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here? What was…
— Sybil Adelman
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I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
— Blythe Danner
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The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I think that's what makes many Swedes jealous of immigrant groups. You have a culture, an identity, a history, something that brings you together. And…
— Mona Sahlin
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production…
— Zoe Tapper
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A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over…
— Stephen King
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There are men who practice Titiksha, and succeed in it. There are men who sleep on the banks of the Ganga in the midsummer sun…
— Swami Vivekananda
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If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to be rising from…
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer…
— Edith Wharton
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The quality of life, which in the ardour of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer.
— Henry Beston
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Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and…
— Roger Angell
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A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses;…
— Charlotte Bronte
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As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.
— William Shakespeare
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If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look.
— Jasper Fforde
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We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously. Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc. 2
— William Shakespeare
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The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as…
— John Newton
Who Wrote These Midsummer Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 25 Midsummer Quotes as follows: