The Tempest Quotes

O brave new world, that has such people in’t! – Miranda

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises. – Caliban

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. – Prospero

What’s past is prologue. – Antonio

Hell is empty and all the devils are here. – Ariel

Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling of their afflictions? – Miranda

I would fain die a dry death. – Trinculo

I must eat my dinner. – Caliban

He that dies pays all debts. – Antonio

Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves… – Prospero

I am a fool to weep at what I am glad of. – Trinculo

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. – Trinculo

I’ll drown my book. – Prospero

Me, poor man, my library was dukedom large enough. – Prospero

This island’s mine, by Sycorax my mother… – Caliban

How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in’t! – Miranda

Let it suffice thee that it hath not pleased thy mother. – Prospero

This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine. – Prospero

I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows… – Titania

A plague upon the tyrant… – Alonso

What seest thou else in the dark backward and abysm of time? – Prospero

If thou dost break her virgin knot before all sanctimonious ceremonies – Prospero

My dukedom since you have given me again, I will requite you with as good a thing. – Francisco

As you from crimes would pardoned be, let your indulgence set me free. – Prospero

Now I will believe that there are unicorns… – Trinculo

This is as strange a maze as e’er men trod. – Alonso

I’ll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth… – Prospero

Admired Miranda! Indeed the top of admiration, worth what’s dearest to the world! – Ferdinand

Come unto these yellow sands… – Ariel

Full fathom five thy father lies… – Ariel

There be some sports are painful, and their labour delight in them sets off. – Miranda

I am not afeard; a little water clears us of this deed. – Antonio

Our revels now are ended… – Prospero

The fire and cracks of sulphurous roaring the most mighty Neptune seemed to besiege and make his bold waves tremble… – Gonzalo

What’s the matter with thy heart? – Miranda

I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking. So full of valour that they smote the air for breathing in their faces… – Stephano

All torment, trouble, wonder, and amazement inhabits here. – Ariel

If you be pleased, retire into my cell and there repose. A turn or two I’ll walk to still my beating mind. – Prospero

I must become a borrower of the night for a dark hour or twain. – Caliban

The strongest oaths are straw to the fire i’ the blood. – Miranda

This music crept by me upon the waters… – Sebastian

Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that’s gone. – Alonso

The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance. – Prospero

To be abed after midnight is to be up betimes. – Trinculo

Thou shalt be lord of it and I’ll serve thee. – Caliban

Thy food is such as hath been belched on by infected lungs. – Caliban

But dost thou hear? Methinks my sister’s voice… – Antonio

O, I have suffered with those that I saw suffer. A brave vessel, who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her… – Miranda

I boarded the king’s ship; now on the beak, now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin, I flamed amazement. – Ariel

But this rough magic I here abjure… – Prospero