Tempest Quotes

Kelly Wald

Act 1 scene 1.

 Boatswain: “What cares these roarers for the name of the king”

Act 1 Scene 2
 Prospero: “I have done nothing but in care of thee… my daughter”

 Prospero: “In the dark backward and abysm of time”

 Prospero: “Thy father was the duke of Milan and a prince of power”

 Prospero: “The Liberal Arts… being all my study, the government I cast upon my brother”
 Prospero: “Without a parallel…my state grew stranger, being transported and rapt in secret
studies”
 Prospero: “Neglecting worldly ends… bettering my mind”

 Prospero: “Made such a sinner of his memory to credit his own lie… Hence his ambition
growing.”

 Prospero: “My library was dukedom large enough.”

 Prospero: “By providence divine”

 Prospero: “sea-sorrow”

 Prospero: “Made thee more profit than other princess’”

 Prospero: “Mine enemies brought to this shore;”

 Ariel: “All hail, great master!”.

 Prospero: “The tempest that I bade thee”

 Prospero: “My brave spirit

 Ariel: “I have done thee worthy service… without grudge or grumblings.”

 Prospero: “The foul witch Sycorax”.

 Prospero: “Sycorax… from Argier… was banished”

 Prospero: “She did confine thee… into a coven pine”

 Prospero: “It was a torment… which Sycorax could not again undo”

 Prospero: “It was mine Art… that made gape the pine, and let thee out”

 Prospero: “Not honored with a human shape”

 Prospero: “A freckled whelp”

 Miranda: “’Tis a villain”

 Prospero: “For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, side stitches that shall pen thy
breath up. Urgent shall for that vast of night that they may work all exercise on thee.”

 Caliban: “This island’s mine, by Sycorax my mother, which thou tak’st from me”

 Caliban: “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 lights, and how the less that
urn by day and night.”

 Caliban: “I loved thee and showed thee all the qualities o’th’isle.”

 Caliban: “Curs’d be I that did so”

 Prospero: “Thou did seek to violate the honor of my child”

 Caliban: “Thou didst prevent me.”

 Miranda: “I pitied thee… vile race”

 Miranda: “Thou deservedly confined to this rock, who hadst deserved more than a prison”

 Prospero: “I’ll wrack thee with old cramps, fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar.”

 Caliban: “His art is of such power”

 Ferdinand: “Weeping again the king my father’s wrack, this music crept by me upon the
waters”

 Ariel: “Sea-change into something rich and strange”

 Miranda: “It carries a brave form”.

 Miranda: “A thing divine”

 Ferdinand: “the best of them that speak this speech”

 Prospero: “The Duke of Milan and his more braver daughter”

 Ferdinand: “The Queen of Naples”

 Miranda: “Good things must strive to dwell with’t”

 Ariel: “To th’syllable”

Act 2 Scene 1

 Gonzalo: “Here is everything advantageous to life”

 Gonzalo: “I’th’commonwealth… all men idle… and women too… innocent and pure”

 Antonio: “Commonwealth forgets the beginning”

 Gonzalo: “but nature should bring forth… all abundance”

Act 2 Scene 2

 Caliban: “All the infections… on Prosper fall, and make him by inch-meal a disease”

 Caliban: “Like hedgehog… lie tumbling in my barefoot… mount their pricks at my footfall”

 Caliban: “Do hiss me unto madness”

 Caliban: “A spirit… to torment me”

 Trinculo: “A man or fish”

 Trinculo: “would give a piece of silver”

 Stephano: “A present for any emperor”

 Caliban: “I’ll swear upon that bottle to be thy true subject, for the liquor is not earthly”

 Stephano: “Mooncalf”

 Caliban: “Dropped from heaven”

 Caliban: “Be my god”

 Caliban: “I’ll swear myself thy subject”

 Trinculo: “A most scurvy monster”

Act 3 Scene 1

 Ferdinand: “Some sports are painful… their labor delight in them sets off”
 Ferdinand: “Makes my labors pleasures”

 Ferdinand: “Sweet mistress”

 Miranda: “My father is hard at study”

 Ferdinand: “Precious creature”

 Ferdinand: “So perfect and so peerless, are created of every creature’s best”

 Miranda: “I would not wish any companion in the world but you”

 Ferdinand: “The very instant…did my heart fly to your service”

Act 3 Scene 2

 Caliban: “Subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island”

 Caliban: “By sorcery he got this isle”

 Caliban: “If thy greatness will revenge it on him”

 Caliban: “The beauty of his daughter”

 Stephano: “I will kill this man. His daughter and I will be King and Queen”

Act 3 Scene 3

 Gonzalo: “Though they are of monstrous shape… their manners are more gentle,
kind, than of our human generation”

 Prospero: “You there present are worse than devils”

 Ariel: “Three men of sin”

 Ariel: “Ministers of Fate”

 Ariel: “The powers… incensed the seas and shores”

 Prospero: “Young Ferdinand, whom they suppose is drowned”

 Alonso: “The winds… and the thunder… pronounced the name of Prospero”

Act 4 Scene 1
 Prospero: “Have given… a third of mine own life”

 Prospero: “Hast strangely stood the test”

 Prospero: “I ratify this my rich gift”

 Prospero: “She will outstrip all praise”

 Prospero: “If thou dost break her virgin-knot before all sanctimonious ceremonies may with
full and holy rite be ministered”

 Ferdinand: “Quiet days, fair issue, and long life”

 Ferdinand: “The white cold virgin snow upon my heart”

 Iris: “A contract of true love”

 Juno: “Honor, riches, marriage blessing, long continuance, and increasing hourly joys be still
upon you! Do you know sings her blessing on you.

 Ferdinand: “Harmonious charmingly”

 Prospero: “Spirits…from their confines called to enact”

 Ferdinand: “Makes this place Paradise”

 Prospero: “That foul conspiracy of the beast Caliban and his confederates”

 Prospero: “These our actions…are melted into air”

 Prospero: “The great globe itself…shall dissolve”

 Prospero: “My old brain is troubled”

 Prospero: “My beating mind”

 Ariel: “red- hot with drinking”

 Ariel: “Charmed their ears”

 Prospero: “A devil, a born devil, on whose nature nurture can never stick “
 Prospero: “I will plague them all even to roaring “

 Caliban: “hoodwink this mischance “

 Caliban: “good mischief ... Make this island thine own for ever “

 Caliban: “do the murder first”

 Caliban: “from toe to Crown he'll fit our skins with pinches, make us strange stuff”

 Prospero: “at this hour lies at my mercy all mine enemies”

Act 5 Scene 1

 Ariel: “you said our work should cease”

 Ariel: “if you now behave beheld them, your affections would become tender”

 Ariel: “mine would, Sir, were I human”

 Prospero: “and mine shall... shall not myself... Be kindly and moved”

 Prospero: “though with their high wrongs I am struck to th’quick, yet with my nobler reason
‘gainst my fury do I take part”

 Prospero: “the rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance”

 Prospero: “they being penitent, the sole drift of my purpose doth extend not a frown
further”

 Prospero: “go release them, Ariel. My charms I’ll break, their senses I’ll restore, and they
shall be themselves.”

 Prospero: “I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever
plummet sound I'll drown my book.”

 Prospero: “O good Gonzalo, my true preserver”

 Ariel: “merrily, merrily shall I live now, under the blossom that hangs on the bow.”

 Alonso: “thy dukedom I resign and do entreat thou pardon me my wrongs.”

 Prospero: “Noble friend ... On it cannot be measured or confined.”

  Prospero: “whom to call brother would even infect my mouth, I do forgive thy rankest fault.”

 Alonso: “that oozy bed where my son lies”

 Sebastian: “a most high miracle”

 Miranda: “O brave new world, that has such people in’t!”

 Alonso: “the goddess that hath severed us”

 Ferdinand: “I have heard renown, but never saw before;”

 Gonzalo: “blessed crown!”

 Prospero: “Bravely, my diligence. Thou shalt be free.”

 Stephano: “every man shift for all the rest, and let no man take care for himself, for all is bad
fortune.”

 Caliban: “these be brave spirits”

 Prospero: “this misshapen knave, his mother a witch”

 Prospero: “had plotted with them to take my life”

 Prospero: “He is as disproportioned in his manners as in his shape”

 Caliban: “I’ll be wise hereafter, and seek for grace”

 Caliban: “to take this drunkard for a god, and worship this dull fool”

 Prospero: “thence retire me to my Milan”

 Prospero: “Every third thought shall be my grave”

 Prospero: “Be free, and fare thou well”

Epilogue

 Prospero: “Now, my charms are all o’erthrown…what strength now I have’s my own,

 Prospero: “Since, I have my dukedom got”

 Prospero: “Release me from my bands”

 Prospero: “ Gentle breaths of yours my sails must fill or else my project fails.”
 Prospero: “Now I want spirits to enforce, art to enchant”

 Prospero: “ As you from crimes would pardoned be/ Let your indulgence set me free”