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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Good Night, Dream

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

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• 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

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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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• 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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• 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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• ...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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• 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

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• 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 Whether you will or no.

  William Shakespeare

  Wife, Maids, May

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 1, l. 83

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• 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

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• 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.

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• Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.

  William Shakespeare

  Our Generation, Generations, Kind

  "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare".

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• For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of night that they may work All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made 'em.

  William Shakespeare

  Exercise, Night, Ems

  William Shakespeare, Virginia Mason Vaughan, Alden T. Vaughan (1999). “The Tempest: Third Series”, p.173, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• He receives comfort like cold porridge.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Comfort

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 1, l. 10

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• 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! O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Brave, Soul

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 5

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• 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

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