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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Evil, Hell

  William Shakespeare, Virginia Mason Vaughan, Alden T. Vaughan (1999). “The Tempest: Third Series”, p.164, Cengage Learning EMEA

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

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Library, Enough

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

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• 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

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• If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, inTruro.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Light, Force, Feels

  Henry David Thoreau (1866). “Cape Cod”, p.146

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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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• 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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• ...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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Awake, Dear

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.3844, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I would not wish any companion in the world but you.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Wish, World

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.3105, Oxford University Press

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