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The Tempest Quotes
20 of the best book quotes from The Tempest
#1
“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.”
author
Shakespeare
book
The Tempest
characters
Miranda
Ferdinand
concepts
love
commitment
#2
“My library was dukedom large enough.”
author
Shakespeare
person
Rulers
book
The Tempest
character
Prospero
concept
libraries
#3
“Thought is free.”
author
Shakespeare
book
The Tempest
concepts
freedom
thoughts
#4
“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! ”
author
Shakespeare
book
The Tempest
characters
Caliban
Miranda
concepts
communication
curse
education
#5
“I’ll swear upon that bottle to be thy true
subject, for the liquor is not earthly. ”
author
Shakespeare
book
The Tempest
character
Caliban
concepts
Alcohol
Servitude
#6
“Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.”
author
Shakespeare
book
The Tempest
character
Miranda
concept
empathy
#7
“I prattle
Something too wildly, and my father’s precepts
I therein do forget.”
author
Shakespeare
book
The Tempest
concepts
talking too much
obedience
Disobedience
#8
“If by your art, my dearest father, you have
Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.”
author
Shakespeare
book
The Tempest
characters
Miranda
Prospero
concepts
storms
magic
#9
“For I am all the subjects that you have,
Which first was mine own king.”
author
Shakespeare
person
Rulers
book
The Tempest
characters
Caliban
Prospero
#10
“As you from crimes would pardoned be,
Let your indulgence set me free.”
author
Shakespeare
book
The Tempest
character
Prospero
concepts
forgiveness
crime
#11
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
author
Shakespeare
book
The Tempest
concepts
Hell
Devil
#12
“The rarer action is
In virtue than in vengeance.”
author
Shakespeare
book
The Tempest
character
Prospero
concepts
revenge
forgiveness
virtue
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#13
“My high charms work,
And these, mine enemies, are all knit up
In their distractions. They now are in my power.”
author
Shakespeare
book
The Tempest
character
Prospero
concepts
magic
distractions
enemies
#14
“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”
author
Shakespeare
book
The Tempest
concepts
misery
Company
#15
“Good wombs have borne bad sons.”
author
Shakespeare
person
Parents
book
The Tempest
character
Miranda
concepts
posterity
Agency
#16
“O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
That has such people in ’t!”
author
Shakespeare
book
The Tempest
character
Miranda
concepts
goodness
gratitude
#17
“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.”
author
Shakespeare
book
The Tempest
character
Prospero
concepts
magic
responsibility
brothers
#18
“Watch out he’s winding the watch of his wit, by and by it will strike.”
author
Shakespeare
book
The Tempest
concepts
Wit
humor
#19
“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. ”
author
Shakespeare
book
The Tempest
characters
Prospero
Miranda
Ferdinand
concepts
tests
trials
#20
“O, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer.”
author
Shakespeare
book
The Tempest
character
Miranda
concepts
empathy
suffering
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