Key Quotes in The Tempest

"The red plague rid youFor learning me your language!"Caliban to Prospero

"The mistress which I serve quickens what's deadAnd makes my labours pleasures."Ferdinand to Miranda

"I am your wife, if you will marry me.If not, I'll die your maid."Miranda to Ferdinand

"Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.Sometimes a thousand twangling instrumentsWill hum about mine ears..."Caliban to Stephano & Trinculo

"...We are such stuffAs dreams are made on, and our little lifeIs rounded with a sleep."Prospero

"Your tale sir, would cure deafness"Miranda to Prospero

"Those are pearls that were his eyes:Nothing of him that doth fadeBut doth suffer a sea-changeInto something rich and strange."Ariel (on the death of Ferdinand's father) 

"I' the commonwealth I would by contrariesExecute all things; for no kind of trafficWould I admit; no name of magistrate;Letters should not be known; riches, poverty..."Gonzalo 

"For I can here, disarm thee with this stick, And make thy weapon drop."Prospero

"This is a most majestic vision, andHarmoniously charmingly. May I be boldTo think these spirits?"Ferdinand

"Spirits, which by mine art..."Prospero

"Our revels are now ended."Prospero

"Advanced their eyelids, lifted up their nosesAs they smelt music: so I charm'd their ears"Ariel

"...you demi puppets thatBy moonshine do the green sour ringlets make"Prospero

"If by your art, my dearest father, you havePut the wild waters in this roar, allay them."Miranda

"Thou didst promiseTo bate me a full year"Ariel

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