The Tempest Key Quotations

PROSPERO:
"Dost thou forget
From what a torment I did free thee?"

ARIEL:
"Remember I have done thee worthy service,
Told thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, served
Without or grudge or grumblings. Thou didst promise
To bate me a full year. "

MIRANDA:
"tis a villain, sir. I do not love to look on."

GONZALO:
"I the commonwealth, I would by contraries execute all things."

BOATSWAIN:
"What cares these roarers for the name of king?"

GONZALO:
"his complexion is perfect gallows."

PROSPERO:
"I have done nothing but in care of thee"

PROSPERO:
"..that a brother should be so perfidious.."

PROSPERO:
"made such a sinner of his memory to credit his own lie"

ARIEL:
"All hail, great master, grave sir, hail! I come to answer thy best pleasure.."

ARIEL:
"Hell is empty, and all the devils are here."

PROSPERO:
"What is't thou demand?"
ARIEL:
"My Liberty."

ARIEL:
"Not a hair perished, on their sustaining garments not a blemish, but fresher than before."

PROSPERO:
“Thou liest, malignant thing..”

PROSPERO:
“The foul witch Sycorax.”

PROSPERO:
“A freckled whelp, hag-born – not honoured with a human shape.”

PROSPERO:
"It was mine art."

PROSPERO:
“If thou more murmur’st, I will rend an oak and peg thee in his knotty entrails till thou hast howled away twelve winters.”

PROSPERO:
“Awake, dear heart, awake; thou hast slept well, awake”

PROSPERO:
“We’ll visit Caliban, my slave, who never yields us kind answer.”

MIRANDA:
“’tis a villain, sir. I do not love to look on.”

PROSPERO:
“Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself upon thy wicked dam, come forth.”

CALIBAN:
“A south west blow on ye, and blister you all o’er!”

CALIBAN:
“This island’s mine by Sycorax my mother, which thou tak’st from me.”

CALIBAN:
“Thou strok’st me and made much of me; wouldst give me water with berries in’t, and teach me how to name the bigger light.”

CALIBAN:
“And then I loved thee and showed thee all the qualities o’th’isle, the fresh springs, brine pits, barrenplace and fertile – cursed be that I did so!”

PROSPERO:
“I have used thee, filth as thou art, with humane care, and lodged thee in mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate the honour of my child.”

CALIBAN:
“Would’t had been done, Thou didst prevent me – I had peopled else this island with Calibans!”

MIRANDA:
“I pitied thee, took pains to make thee speak, taught each hour one thing or other.”

MIRANDA:
"Gabble like a thing most brutish."

PROSPERO:
“No, wench, it eats, and sleeps, and hath such sense as we have.”

MIRANDA:
“I might call him a thing divine, for nothing natural I ever saw so noble.”

PROSPERO:
"Foolish wench."

GONZALO:
"Beseech you, sir. Be merry."

ADRIAN:
"uninhabitable, almost inaccessible."

ADRIAN:
"The air breathes upon us most sweetly."

SEBASTIAN:
"as if it had lungs, and rotten ones."

ANTONIO:
"The ground indeed is most tawny."

SEBASTIAN:
"Twas was a sweet marriage, and we prosper well in our return."

FRANCISCO:
"As stooping to relieve him, I not doubt he came alive to land."

SEBASTIAN:
"Sir, you may thank yourself for this great loss."
"The fault's your own."

GONZALO:
"My lord Sebastian, the truth you speak doth lack some gentleness."

ANTONIO:
"The latter end of his commonwealth forgets the beginning."

GONZALO:
"I would with such perfection govern,sir, T'excel the Golden Age."

ANTONIO:
"Worthy Sebastian, [...] my strong imagination sees a crown dropping upon thy head."

ANTONIO:
"Look how well my garments sit upon me!"

ANTONIO:
"Here lies your brother [..], if he were that which now he's like - that's dead."

ANTONIO:
"..Can lay to bed forever."

ANTONIO:
"They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk."

CALIBAN:
"All the infections that the sun sucks up from bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, & make him by inch-meal a disease. His spirits hear me, & yet I needs must curse."

TRINCULO:
"What have we here, a man or a fish? Dead or alive?"
"A dead fish."

TRINCULO:
"When they will not give a doit to a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian."

CALIBAN:
"Hast thou dropped from heaven?"

CALIBAN:
"I'll show thee every fertile inch o'th'island. And I will kiss thy foot - I prithee be my God."
"Thou wondrous man."

TRINCULO:
"A most ridiculous monster, to make a wonder of a poor drunkard."

CALIBAN:
"Freedom, high-day, freedom."

FERDINAND:
"..such baseness had never like executor."

FERDINAND:
"O, she is ten times more gentle than he fathers crabbed - and he's composed of harshness."

FERDINAND:
"NO, precious creature, I'd rather break my back, than you should such dishonour undergo, while I sit lazy by."

PROSPERO:
"Poor worm, thou art infected."

MIRANDA:
"Miranda. - O my father, I have broke your your hest to say so."

FERDINAND:
"Admired Miranda, indeed the top of admiration, worth what's dearest to the world. Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time th'harmony of their tongues hath into bondage, brought too my diligent ear."

FERDINAND:
"Have I liked several women, never any with so full soul but some defect in her."

FERDINAND:
"But you, O you, so perfect and so peerless, are created of every creature's best."

MIRANDA:
"I do not know one of my sex, no woman's face remember, save from my glass, mine own. Nor have I seen more that I may call men than you, good friend, and my dear father."

FERDINAND:
"..and for your sake, am I this patient log man."

FERDINAND:
"I, beyond all limit of what else i'th'world, do love, prize, honour you."

MIRANDA:
"At mine unworthiness"
"I am your wife, if you will marry me, if not, I'll die your maid."

STEPHANO:
"Drink, servant monster."

CALIBAN:
"As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island."
"I say by sorcery he got this isle!"

CALIBAN:
"My lord, I'll yield him thee asleep, where thou mayst knock a nail into his head."

CALIBAN:
"I never saw a woman but only Sycorax my dam..."

CALIBAN:
"Ay, Lord, she will become thy bed, I warrant, and bring thee forth brave brood."

STEPHANO:
"Monster, I will kill this man. His daughter and I will be king and queen!"

CALIBAN:
"Sounds, & sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not."
"..and then in dreaming the clouds methought would open, & show riches ready to drop upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again."

ALONSO:
"Even here I will put off my hope.."
"Well, let him go."

ANTONIO:
"I am right glad that he's so out of hope."

SEBASTIAN:
"There are unicorns; that in Arabia there is one tree, the Phoenix' throne, one phoenix at this hour reigning there."

ALONSO:
"Therefore my on i'th'ooze is bedded; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded and with him there lie muddled."

PROSPERO:
"I must bestow upon the eyes of this young couple some vanity of mine."

PROSPERO:
"To th'fire i'th'blood."

FERDINAND:
"I warrant you, sir, the white cold virgin snow upon my hear abates the ardour of my liver."

IRIS:
"..thy rich leas of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats and peas.."

IRIS:
"Spongy April"
"Lassborn spring"

CERES:
"Vines with clustering bunches growing, plants with goodly burden bowing"

IRIS:
"three sunburned sickle men of August weary"

PROSPERO:
"I had forgot that foul conspiracy of the beast Caliban and his confederates"

PROSPERO:
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep."

PROSPERO:
"A devil, a born devil, on whose nature nurture can never stick"

[ENTER PROSPERO, IN HIS MAGIC ROBES]

ARIEL:
"His tears runs down his beard like winter's drops from eaves of reeds"

PROSPERO: "Dost thou think so, spirit?"
ARIEL: "Mine would sir, if I were human"

Act 5, Scene 1
Lines 8 - 19

PROSPERO:
"The rare action is in virtue, than in vengeance."

PROSPERO:
"I do forgive thee, unnatural through thou art."

PROSPERO:
"I will discase me, and myself present as I was sometime Milan. Quickly, Spirit, thou shalt ere long be free."

PROSPERO:
"Why's that my dainty Ariel"
"The wronged Duke of Milan, Prospero"

PROSPERO:
"I here could pluck his highness frown upon you and justify you traitors. At this time I will tell no tales."