The Tempest- Quotes

• Prospero


  "Alack, what trouble was i then to you!" "o, a cherubin thou wast that did preserve me"
• Ariel


  "Al hail, great master"
• Ferdinand


  "Hell is empty, and all the devils are here"
• Ariel


  "My Liberty"
• Prospero


  "Thou liest, malignant thing"
• Prospero to Caliban


  Slave, tortoise, filth, savage
• Prospero


  "Till thou didst seek to violate the honour of my child"
• Caliban


  "You taught me language, and my profit on't is, i know how to curse"
• Prospero


  "Hagseed"
• Miranda


  "I might call him a thing divine, for nothing natural"
• Ferdinand


  "Most sure, the goddess on whom these airs attend"
• Ferdinand


  "O' if a virgin, and your affection not gone forth, i'll make you the Queen of Naples"
• Ariel


  "That's my noble master"
• Prospero


  "This swift business, i must uneasy make"
• Prospero about Miranda


  "Prize"
• Antonio


  "[His] strong imagination sees a crown dropping upon thy head"
• Sebastion


  "I remember you did supplant your brother prospero"
• Fransisco


  "Sir he may live. I saw him beat the surges under him"
• Sebastion


  "Sir you may thank yourself for this great loss, that would not bless our Europe with your daughter, but rather lose her to an African"
• Sebastian about Alonso


  "The faults your own"
• Gonzalo


  "No use of metal, corn, wine, or oil; No occupation, all men idle, all; and women too, but innocent and pure. No sovereignty "
• Antonio


  "Here lies your brother, no better than the earth he lies upon"
• Antonio


  machiavellian
• Ferdinand


  "The mistress which i serve quickens what's dead, and makes my labours pleasures"
• Miranda


  "My father is hard at study; pray now rest yourself"
• Miranda


  "If you'll sit down, i'll bear your logs a while"
• Prospero


  "Poor worm, thou art infected"
• Ferdinand


  "I do love, prize, honour you"
• Miranda


  "I am your wife, if you will marry me"
• Ferdinand


  "Here's my hand"
• Trinculo


  "If th' other two be brained like us, the state totters"
• Trinculo to caliban

  "Brave""Servant""Ignorant"
• Caliban to stephano

  "Let me lick thy shoe"
• Caliban to prospero


  "Tyrant"
• Caliban


  "Cheated me of this island"
• Ariel


  "Thou liest"
• Caliban

  "Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake, or cut his weasand with my knife"
• Caliban


  "The isle is full of noises"
• Gonzalo


  "There manners are more gentle, kind, than of our human generation"
• Stage direction (Ariel)


  "Thunder and lightning. Enter ariel, like a harpy"