Transformative nature of love

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“Things base and vile, holding no quantity, / Love can transpose to form and dignity.”

Helena

Act I, Scene I

“For that / It is not night when I do see your face, / Therefore I think I am not in the night.”

Helena

Act II, Scene I

“I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again. / Mine ear is much enamored of thy note; / So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape.”

Titania

Act III, Scene I

“I had no judgement when to her I swore.”

Lysander

Act III, Scene II

“O Helen, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine!”

Demetrius

Act III, Scene II

“You both are rivals, and love Hermia, / And now both rivals to mock Helena.”

Helena

Act III, Scene II

“My love, my life, my soul, fair Helena!”

Lysander

Act III, Scene II

“Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! Vile thing, let loose.”

Lysander

Act III, Scene II

“My love to Hermia, / Melted as the snow, seems to me now / As the remembrance of an idle gaud / Which in my childhood I did dote upon.”

Demetrius

Act IV, Scene I