The Tempest Quotes

“How features are abroad
I am skilless of, but, by my modesty,
The jewel in my dower, I would not wish
Any companion in the world but you,
Nor can imagination form a shape
Besides yourself to like of.”

“My library was dukedom large enough.”

“Thought is free.”

“You taught me language, and my profit on ’t
Is I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
For learning me your language! ”

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

“Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.”

“I prattle
Something too wildly, and my father’s precepts
I therein do forget.”

“If by your art, my dearest father, you have
Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.”

“For I am all the subjects that you have,
Which first was mine own king.”

“As you from crimes would pardoned be,
Let your indulgence set me free.”

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

“The rarer action is
In virtue than in vengeance.”

“My high charms work,
And these, mine enemies, are all knit up
In their distractions. They now are in my power.”

“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”

“Good wombs have borne bad sons.”

“O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
That has such people in ’t!”

“Those being all my study,
The government I cast upon my brother
And to my state grew stranger, being transported
And rapt in secret studies.”

“Watch out he’s winding the watch of his wit, by and by it will strike.”

“All thy vexations
Were by my trials of thy love, and thou
Hast strangely stood the test. Here, afore heaven,
I ratify this my rich gift. ”

“O, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer.”