Tempest Quotes

• "Your tale, sir, would cure deafness" - Miranda
• "All hail great master! Grave sir, hail! I come to answer they best pleasure. Be't to fly, to swim, to dive into the fire, to ride on the curled clouds, to they strong bidding task Ariel and all his quality" - Ariel
• "Pardon, master. I will be correspondent to command and do my spiriting gently" - Ariel
• "You taught me language, and my profit on 't is I know how to curse, the red plague rid you for learning me your language" - Caliban
• "My language! Heavens! I am the best of them that speak this speech" - Ferdinand
• "The rarer action is / In virtue than in vengeance" - Prospero
• "We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep" - Prospero
• "I have it just from memory" - Prospero
• "My strong imagination sees a crown dropping upon thy head" - Antonio (towards Sebastian)
• "I'll swear upon that bottle to be thy true subject, for the liquor is not earthly" - Caliban
• "This island is mine by Sycorax, my mother" - Caliban
• "Ay, ay, he's mad indeed" - Gonzalo
• "Pore worm, thou art infected. This visitation shows it" - Prospero
• "I beyond all limit of what else i' th' world, do love, prize, honor you" - Ferdinand
• "I am your wife if you will marry me. If not, I'll die your maid, to be your fellow. You may deny me, but I'll be your servant" - Miranda
• "there thou mayst brain him, having first seized his books, or with a log batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake, or cut his weasand with thy knife" - Caliban
• "Your charm so strongly works them that if you now beheld them, your affections would become tender" - Ariel
• "But this rough magic I here abjure" - Prospero
• "I here could pluck his Highness' frown upon you and justify you traitors. At this time I will tell no tales" - Prospero
• "For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother would even infect my mouth, I do forgive thy rankest fault, all of them, and require my dukedom of thee, which preforce I know thou must restore" - Prospero
• "Have lost my daughter" - Prospero
• "O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O, brave new world that has such people in 't!" - Miranda
• "Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone" - Prospero
• "Thou poisonous slave" - Alonso
• "Two of these fellows you must known and own. This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine" - Prospero
• "I am vexed; bear with my infirmity" - Caliban
• "Now my charms are all o'erthrown, and what strength I have 's mine own, which is most faint" - Prospero
• “Good wombs have borne bad sons.” - Miranda
• “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” - Ariel
• “My library was dukedom large enough.” - Prospero
• “Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.” - Prospero
• “Thou shalt be free as mountain winds: but then exactly do all points of my command.” - Prospero
• “For I am all the subjects that you have, which first was mine own king.” - Caliban
• “I would not wish any companion in the world but you" - Miranda
• “Thought is free.” - Stefano
• “As you from crimes would pardoned be, let your indulgence set me free.” - Prospero
• "you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog." - Sebastian
• "Hang you whoreson, insolent noise-maker!" - Antonio
• "Had I been any god of power" - Miranda
• "Tell your piteous heart, there's no harm done" - Prospero