1. "With cunning hast thou filched my daughter's heart, / Turned her obedience, which is due to me, / to stubborn harshness." -Egeus about Lysander Act 1 Scene 1, lines 37-39
Egeus is saying that Lysander has captured Hermia's heart and made her love him. That he turned her obedience to him into stubborness by not marrying the man Egeus wants her to, Demetrius, and instead loves Lysander and hence, has caused all the turmoil. Without this conflict, the play would have no plot, which makes the quote quite significant. It shows Egeus's personal view of Lysander and the quarrel- that it is all Lysander's fault and that his daughter shall not marry him.
2. "The course of true love never did run smooth." -Lysander to Hermia Act 1 Scene 1, line 136
Lysander is saying that no true love is easy and must be worked for to achieve. This quote is significant, because, in all the relationships displayed in the play: Theseus and Hippolyta, Oberon and Titania, Helena and Demetrius, Demetrius and Hermia, and Hermia and Lysander, we notice that none of the relationships are smooth and all full of great joy, but somewhere within them lies conflict and that is what is souht to be straightened out and made right in the play.
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