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- Im 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/ Theres 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 whichsucked 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 limitexecuting thoutward 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 shorea 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 oer
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) Abhorrd 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 eeer I sighed for My Affections are then
most humble, I have no ambition to see a goodlier man
Ferdinand- Oh if a virginIll 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 miraclefew 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 hes gone
Sebastian- Sir, you may thank yourself for this great loss The faults your
own
Gonzalo- No kind of trafficno 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
endeavourbut 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, theyll 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 thingsthats 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
creatures best

- My heart fly to your serviceto 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. Hes 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
Ill seek him deeper than eer plumment sounded and with him there lie
mudded
Gonzalo- Their great guilt, like poisonno gins to bite the sprites
Act 4 Scene 1
Prospero- The strongest oaths are straw to th fire Ithe 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 itselfshall 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 reedsif 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 furythe rarer
action is in virtue than in vengeance
- They being penitent, the sole drift of my purpose doth
extend not a frown further

This rough magic I here abjure, and when I have

required some heavenly musicIll break my staff, Bury
it certain fathoms in the earth, and Ill drown my
book
( To Antonio) - You brother mine, that entertained
ambition, Expelled remorse and natureI 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- Ill 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 oerthrown, And what strength I have mine own