The Tempest Quotes ( By Act) Act 1 Scene 1 Boatswain- “ What cares these roarers for the name of the king? Gonazalo-“ remember whom thou hast aboard” Sebastion-“ I’m out of patience” Antonia- “ We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards” Gonzalo “ The wills above be done” Act 1 Scene 2 Miranda- “ Oh, the cry did knock against my very heart!... Had I been any god of power, I would /Have sunk the sea within the earth or ere/It should the good ship so have swallowed and /The fraughting souls within her” Prospero to Miranda-“ Tell your piteous heart/ There’s no harm done” -“ Art igrnorant of what thou art”
Miranda-“ More to know/Did never meddle with my thoughts” Prospero-“ By foult play, as thou sayst, were we heaved thence, But blessedly holp hither” Prospero-“ That a brother should be so perfidious” -“ Next thyself of all the world I loved” -“ Reputed/in dignity, and for the liberal arts without a parallel. -“ Once perfected how to grant suits, how to deny them, who t’ advance and who to trash for overtopping … set all hearts I’ th’ state to what tune pleased his ear” -“ The ivy which…sucked my verdure out” Prospero- “ All dedicated to closeness and the bettering of my mind” -“ A falsehood in its contrary as great as my trust was, which had indeed no limit…executing th’outward face of royalty with all prerogative. Hence his ambition growing” -“ Me, poorm man, my library was dukedom large enough” Miranda-“ Good wombs have borne bad sons” Prospero-“ Oh, a cherubim/ Thous wast that did preserve me. Thou didst smile infused with a fortitude from heaven” Prospero( describing Gonzalo) -“ Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me from mine own library with volumes I prize above my dukedom” Prospero-“ hath mine enemies brought to this shore…a most auspicious star, whose influence if now I court not but omit, my fortunes will ever after droop” Ariel ( describing Ferdinand) –“ Hell is empty/ And all the devils are here.” Prospero-“ A freckled whelp hag born-not honoured with a human shape” Prospero-“ Do so and after two days I will discharge thee” Miranda ( describing Caliban)- “ ‘Tis a villain, sir, I do not love to look on” Caliban-“ As wicked dew …drop on our both! A southewest blow on ye and blister you all o’er” Prospero ( to caliban) –“ Till thou didst seek to violate the honour of my child” Caliban-“ I had peopled else this isle with Calibans” Miranda ( to Caliban) –“ Abhorrèd slave, which any print of goodness wilt not take” Miranda( describing Ferdinand) –“ I might call him a thing divine, for nothing natural I ever saw so noble” Ferdinand-“ O you wonder!” “ Might I but through my priosn once a day behold this maid ....let liberty make use of “
Miranda-“ this is the …the first that e’eer I sighed for” “ My Affections are then most humble, I have no ambition to see a goodlier man” Ferdinand-“ Oh if a virgin…I’ll make you the queen of Naples” Prospero-“ Foolish wench, to th’ most of men this is a Caliban and they to him are angles”
Act 2 Scene 1 Gonzalo-“ Our hint of woe is common. But for the miracle…few in millions can speak like use”
Sebastian ( describing Alonso)- “ He receives comfort like cold porridge) Sebastian-“ As if it had lunchs, and rotten ones” Gonzalo then Antonio-“ Here is everything advantageous to life/ True. Save means to live. Alonso( describing Ferdinand) –“ No, no he’s gone” Sebastian-“ Sir, you may thank yourself for this great loss” “ The fault’s your own” Gonzalo-“ No kind of traffic…no name of magistrates. Riches, poverty, and use of service-none. Contract succession, bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard-none. All men idle,all. And women too, but innocent and pure. No sovereignty” -“ All things in common nature should produce without sweat or endeavour…but nature should bring forth of its own kind all foison, all abundance, to feed my innocent people” Gonzalo( describing the men)- “ you would life the moon out of her sphere if she would continue in it 5 weeks without changing” Antonio ( to Sebastian) – “ My strong imagination sees a crown dropping upon they head” - “ No hope that way is another way so high a hope that even Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond, but doubt discovery there” - “ Look how well my garments sit upon me, much feater than before” - “ I feel not this deity in my bosom. Twenty consciences, that stand twixt me and Milan, candied be they/ And melt ere they molest!” - “ For all the rest, they’ll take suggestion as a cat laps milk” Sebastian-“ The case, dear friend, shall be my precedent” Antonio-“ It was the roar of a whole herd of lions” Act 2 Scene 2 Caliban-“ Sometimes am I all wound with adders who with cloven tongues do hiss me into madness” Trinculo- When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame begger, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian” Caliban-“ These be fine things…that’s a brave god and bears celestial liquor. I will kneel to him” - “ I will kiss they foot. I prithee, be my god” Act 3 Scene 1 Ferdinand-“ Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone. And most poor matters point to rich ends” -“ But you, …so perfect and so peerless, are created of every creature’s best”
-“ My heart fly to your service…to make me slave to it, and for your sake am I this patient log-man” - “ With a heart as willing as bondage e;er of freedom” Act 3 Scene 2 Caliban ( to Trinculo) – “ ill not serve him. He’s not valiant” Stephano (to Trinculo)-“ If you prove a mutineer, the next tree” Ariel-“ Thou liest” – how easy they are to manipulation Caliban-“ Remember first to possess his books for without them hes but a sot, as I am, nor hath not one spirit to command” Stephano-“ He that dies pays all debts. ..Mercy upon us!” Caliban-“ The isle is full of noises,/ Sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not” - “ In dreaming, the clouds methought would open and show riches/ Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again” Act 3 Scene 3 Ariel-“ I and my fellows are ministers of fate “ -“ For which foul deed the powers- delaying, not forgetting-have incensed the seas and shores against your peace. - “ Is nothing but hearts’ sorrow and a clear life ensuing” Alonso-“ It did bass my treaspass. Therefore my son I’ th’ ooze is bedded and I’ll seek him deeper than e’er plumment sounded and with him there lie mudded” Gonzalo-“ Their great guilt, like poison…no ‘gins to bite the sprites” Act 4 Scene 1 Prospero-“ The strongest oaths are straw to th’ fire I’the’ blood”. Prospero-“ We are such are such stuff as dreams are mad on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep” -“ The solemn temples, the great globe itself…shall dissolve, and like this insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind.”
Ariel ( describing Caliban, and co) – “ So full of valor that they smote the air for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet” Prospero-“ A devil, a born devil on whose nature Nurture can never stick” -“ And as with age his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers” Stephano ( describing the lost bottle)- “ There is not only disgrace and dishonour in that, monster, but an infinite loss” Caliban-“ What do you mean to dote thus on such luggage?” Trinculo-“ We steal by line and level” Prospero-“ At this hour lie at my mercy all mien enemies” Act 5 Scene 1 Ariel ( to Prospero) – “ His tears run down his beards like winters drops form eaves of reeds…if you now beheld them, your affections would become tender” -“ Mind would sir, were I human. Prospero-“ Which but air, a touch …of their afflictions, and shall not myself one of their kind… be kindlier move than thou art? - “ “ With my nobler reason ‘gainst my fury…the rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance” - “They being penitent, the sole drift of my purpose doth extend not a frown further”
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“ This rough magic I here abjure, and when I have required some heavenly music…I’ll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and …I’ll drown my book” ( To Antonio) -“ You brother mine, that entertained ambition, Expelled remorse and nature…I do forgive thee, unnatural though thou art” ( Aside)-“ Their understanding begins to swell, and the approaching tide will shortly fill the reasonable shore that now lies foul and muddy” ( To Alonso)- “ I bid a hearty welcome”
Alonso-“ Thy dukedom I resign and do entreat thou pardon me my wrongs” Prospero ( to Gonzalo)- “ Whose honor cannot be measured or confined” - ( To Antonio)- “ I do forgive thy rankest fault… and require my dukedom of thee “ - ( To Sebastian and Antonio) –“ I will tell no tales” - ( To Alonso)-“ You have not sought her help, of whose soft grace for the like loss I have her sovereign aid, and rest myself content” Miranda- “ For a score of kingdoms you should warngle, And I would call it fair play” - “ How many goodly creature are there here! How beauteous mankin is ! O brave new world” Gonzalo-“ Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his issue should become kings of Naples? In one voyage … Ferdinand …found a wife, where he himself was lost; Prosperio , his dukedom in a poor isle …and all of us, ourselves When no man was his own. Prospero ( to caliban)- “ As you look to have my pardon, trim it handsomely” Caliban-“ I’ll be wise hereafter and seek for grace. What I thrice double ass was I, to take this drunkard for a god and worship this dull fool!” Prospero-“ Where every third thought shall be my grave”
Act 5 Epilogue “ No my charms are all o’erthrown, And what strength I have mine own”
