Tempest Quotes

• Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

  Emma Lazarus

  Inspirational, Freedom, Tired

  "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).

  48 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• Love comforteth like sunshine after rain,
  But Lust's effect is tempest after sun;
  Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain,
  Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done;
  Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;
  Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Summer, Spring

  William Shakespeare (1826). “The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare”, p.43

  110 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.

  William Shakespeare

  Son, Grandmother, Thinking

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tempest”, p.16, Oxford University Press, USA

  12 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wind, May

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “Othello Retold In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.94, BookCaps Study Guides

  12 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Lying, Enemy

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall, John Ogden, Richard H. Horne (1843). “The Works of Shakspere”, p.30

  12 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Hamlet And Ophelia, Important Hamlet

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [291]

  7 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night.

  William Shakespeare

  Science, Moon, Night

  William Shakespeare, Kathleen Ermitage (2002). “The Tempest”, p.56, Barron's Educational Series

  2 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• A very ancient and fish-like smell.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Smell, Ancient

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 2, l. [27]

  3 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.

  William Shakespeare

  Deafness, Cures, Tales

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 106

  3 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to work mine end upon their senses that this airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Magic, Sound

  1611 Prospero.The Tempest, act 5, sc.1, l.54-7.

  2 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• Now I will believe that there are unicorns.

  William Shakespeare

  Believe, Unicorn

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson”, p.58

  149 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose you resolved to effect.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Healing, Purpose

  2 Copy quote

  Report

• When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in't; and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night; and then I loved thee And showed thee all the qualities o' th' isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Night, Light

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Four Late Plays”, p.357, Wordsworth Editions

  4 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Pox, Throat

  William Shakespeare, Virginia Mason Vaughan, Alden T. Vaughan (1999). “The Tempest: Third Series”, p.147, Cengage Learning EMEA

  50 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Library, Enough

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 109

  2 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• Fill all thy bones with aches.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Bones, Ache

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.57

  3 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Spiritual, Philosophy

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 166

  19 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Gonzalo From Tempest, Curtains

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 405

  3 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• ...lest too light winning make the prize light.

  William Shakespeare

  Winning, Light, Prize

  William Shakespeare (2016). “WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ultimate Collection: ALL 38 Plays & Complete Poetry (Including the Biography of the Author): Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, The Tempest, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errorsäó_”, p.892, e-artnow

  3 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• Be collected.
  No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart
  There's no harm done.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Comfort, Done

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.64

  2 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Watches, Strikes

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 1, l. [12]

  6 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises.

  William Shakespeare

  Noise, Isle, Caliban

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [147]

  3 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• All's well that ends well.

  John Heywood

  Wise, Wisdom, Drama

  John Heywood (1867). “The proverbs and epigrams of John Heywood: with an app. of variations”, p.21

  12 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.

  William Shakespeare

  Crime, Pardon, Indulgence

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.18

  3 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse

  William Shakespeare

  Taught, Language, Profit

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 363

  5 Copy quote

  Report Show source

Page 1 of 9

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

Next →