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).

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Sweet, Hurt

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [152]

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• 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

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• 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

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• Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Depression, Husband

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 2, l. [42]

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• When I waked, I cried to dream again

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Caliban, Long Sleep

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [152]

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• There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't

  William Shakespeare

  House, Temples, Spirit

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.67

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• Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone.

  William Shakespeare

  Kind, Baseness, Brave New World Lenina

  William Shakespeare, Khan (2001). “The Tempest”, p.56, Orient Blackswan

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• ...and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked / I cried to dream again.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Clouds, Riches

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [152]

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• All is well that ends well

  Emily Rodda

  Wise, Drama, Italian

  Emily Rodda (2008). “The Key to Rondo”, p.332, Scholastic Inc.

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• 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, Sound, Earth

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 5, sc. 1, l. 50

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• Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Change, Tombstone, Sea

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.219

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• The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

  William Shakespeare

  Action, Vengeance, Virtue

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1156, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Sea, Giving

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 1, l. [70]

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• What seest thou else
  In the dark backward and abysm of time?

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Dark, Gonzalo From Tempest

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 49

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

  William Shakespeare

  Noise, Isle, Caliban

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

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• He that dies pays all debts.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Memorable, Debt

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [143]

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• Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Dream, Sleep

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. 148

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• The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Hamlet And Ophelia, Joints

  1600-1 Hamlet. Hamlet, act1, sc.5, l.189-90.

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• O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!

  William Shakespeare

  Brave New World, People, Wonder

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 5, sc. 1, l. 182

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• O, I have suffered
  With those that I saw suffer!

  William Shakespeare

  Sympathy, Suffering, Saws

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.3813, BookCaps Study Guides

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