The tempest quotes

• The Tempest: 'What cares these roarers for the name of king?'
• The Tempest: 'if you can command these elements to silence, and work the peace of the present, we will not hand a rope more. Use your authority.'
• The Tempest: 'Hang, cur, hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker! We are less afraid to be drowned than thou art.'
• The Tempest: 'The King and Prince at prayers. Let’s assist them, for our case is as theirs.'
• The Tempest: 'O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! A brave vessel, Who had no doubt some noble creature in her, Dashed all to pieces.'
• The Tempest: 'Had I been any god of power, I would Have sunk the sea within the earth'
• The Tempest: 'I have done nothing but in care of thee, Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter'
• The Tempest: 'I have with such provision in mine art So safely ordered that there is no soul— No, not so much perdition as an hair, Betid to any creature in the vessel Which thou heard’st cry, which thou saw’st sink.'
• The Tempest: 'Thy father was the Duke of Milan and A prince of power.'
• The Tempest: 'Thy false uncle...new created The creatures that were mine...set all hearts i'th'state To what tune pleased his ear, that now he was The ivy which had hid my princely trunk, And sucked my verdure out on't...'
• The Tempest: 'The government I cast upon my brother And to my state grew stranger, being transported And rapt in secret studies.'
• The Tempest: '… in my false brother Awaked an evil nature, and my trust, Like a good parent, did beget of him A falsehood in its contrary as great As my trust was, which had indeed no limit, A confidence sans bound.'
• The Tempest: 'To have no screen between this part he played And him he played it for, he needs will be Absolute Milan.'
• The Tempest: 'So dry he was for sway, wi’ th’ King of Naples To give him annual tribute, do him homage, Subject his coronet to his crown, and bend The dukedom, yet unbowed—alas, poor Milan!— To most ignoble stooping.'
• The Tempest: 'Alack, for pity! I, not rememb’ring how I cried out then, Will cry it o’er again. It is a hint That wrings mine eyes to ’t.'
• The Tempest: 'Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.'
• The Tempest: 'Here in this island we arrived, and here Have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit Than other princes can, that have more time For vainer hours and tutors not so careful.'
• The Tempest: 'I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.'
• The Tempest: 'Come away, servant, come. I am ready now. Approach, my Ariel. Come.'
• The Tempest: 'All hail, great master! Grave sir, hail! I come To answer thy best pleasure. Be ’t to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride On the curled clouds, to thy strong bidding task Ariel and all his quality.'
• The Tempest: 'The fire and cracks Of sulfurous roaring the most mighty Neptune Seem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble, Yea, his dread trident shake.'
• The Tempest: 'My brave spirit!'
• The Tempest: 'Not a hair perished. On their sustaining garments not a blemish, But fresher than before;'
• The Tempest: 'Safely in harbour Is the King’s ship. In the deep nook, where once Thou called’st me up at midnight to fetch dew From the still-vexed Bermoothes, there she’s hid;'
• The Tempest: 'Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains, Let me remember thee what thou hast promised, Which is not yet performed me.'
• "I am such another poor, bare, forked animal as thou art" - Caliban
• Speaker: 'Quote'
• Staining garments not a blemish


  Fresher than before
• King’s ship safely in harbour

  Is hidden in the deep nook where once the speaker was called up at midnight to fetch dew from the still-vexed Bermoothes
• Promise not yet performed

  More toil given
• The speaker has done worthy service, told no lies, made no mistakings, served without grudge or grumblings
• Promise to bate a full year

  Not fulfilled
• Witch Sycorax

  Grown into a hoop with age and envy, not honored with a human shape
• Witch Sycorax’s groans

  Make wolves howl and penetrate the breasts of ever-angry bears
• Witch Sycorax’s torment

  Laid upon the damned, could not be undone
• Witch Sycorax’s art

  Made the pine gape and let the speaker out
• Caliban serves in offices that profit the speaker


  Makes fire, fetches wood
• Caliban is a poisonous slave


  Got by the devil himself upon his wicked dam
• Curse on Caliban and his mother


  Wicked dew to drop on them
• Island claimed by Sycorax, the speaker’s mother

  Taken from the speaker