Tempest Quotes
Act 1, Scene 1
“You mar our labour, keep your cabins”, “what care these roarers for the name of king” – Boatswain, power
“Use your authority; if you cannot, give thanks you have liv’d so long” – Boatswain to Gonzalo, power
“I have great comfort from this fellow” – Gonzalo, Gonzalo’s character
“You bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog” – Sebastian to Boatswain, Sebastian’s character
“You whoreson, insolent noise-maker” – Antonio to Boatswain, Antonio’s character
“The wills above be done, but I would fain die a dry death” – Gonzalo, religion/God
Act 1, Scene 2
“If by your art, my dearest father, you have put the wild waters in this roar, allay them”, “O I have suffered with
those that I saw suffer” – Miranda, her empathy towards other
“I have done nothing but in care of thee, of thee, my dear one, thee my daughter”, “thou wast that did preserve
me” – Prospero, his empathy
“Not so much as a perdition as an hair betid to any creature in the vessel” – Prospero
“Thy father was Duke of Milan, and a prince of power”, “thy mother was a piece of virtue” – Prospero
“Foul play” – Miranda and Prospero
“My brother and thy uncle… mark me that a brother should be so perfidious”, “thy false uncle”, “in my false
brother awak’d an even nature”, “tell me if this might be a brother” – Prospero, family, brothers
“And Prospero, the prime duke, being so reputed in dignity, and for the liberal arts, without a parallel, those
being all my study – the government I cast upon my brother” – Prospero
“He was the ivy which had hid my princely trunk and suck’s my verdure out on’t” – Prospero
“Neglecting my worldly ends” – Prospero
“Your tale, sir, would cure deafness” – Miranda
“My library was dukedom large enough” – Prospero
“Good wombs have borne bad sons” – Miranda
“A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo, out of his charity… did give us, with rich garments, linens, stuffs and
necessaries… he furnish’d my from mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom” – Prospero
“All hail great master! grave sir, hail! I come to answer thy best pleasure; be’t to fly, to swim, to dive into the
fire, to ride on the curl’d clouds”, “my noble master” – Ariel
“My brave spirit” – Prospero
“Not a hair perish’d”, “I have disper’d them ‘bout the isle” – Ariel
“My liberty”, “remember I have done thee worthy service” – Ariel
, “It was mine art, when I arri’d and heard thee, that made gape the pine, and let thee out” – Prospero, magic
“I will rend an oak and peg the in his knotty entrails, till thou hast howl’d away twelve winters” – Prospero
“Go make thyself a nymph o’ th’ sea” – Prospero, magic
“Caliban, my slave”, “thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself”, ”most lying slave” – Prospero on Caliban
“’Tis a villain, sir, I do not love to look on” – Miranda on Caliban
“To-night thou shalt have cramps, side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up”
“This island’s mine, by Sycorax my mother, which thou tak’st from me”
“Teach me how to name the bigger light, and how the less, that burn by day and night; and then I lov’d thee and
show’d thee all the qualities o’ th’ isle” – Caliban
“Thou didst seek to violate the honour of my child” – Prospero
“I had peopl’d else the isle with Calibans”
“Abhorred slave… I pitied thee, took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour one thing or other”,
“therefore wast thou deservedly confin’d to this rock” – Miranda
“My profit on’t is, I know how to curse” – Caliban
“If thou negect’st… I’ll rack thee with old cramps, fill all thy bones with aches”
“Ariel’s song” – magic
“I might call him a think divine, for nothing natural I ever saw so noble” – Miranda about Ferdinand
“The goddess on whom these airs attend” – Ferdinand about Miranda
“Delicate Ariel, I’ll set thee free for this” – Prospero
“This is the third man I e’er saw; the first that e’er I sigh’d for”, “there’s nothing ill can dwell in such a temple” –
Miranda
“O, if a virgin… I’ll make you The Queen of Naples” – Ferdinand
“But this swift business I must uneasy make, lest too light winning make the prize light” – Prospero
“Might I but through my prison once a day behold this maid. All corners else o’ th’ earth let liberty make use of;
space enough have I in such a prison” - Ferdinand
Act 2, Scene 1
“Here is everything advantageous to life”, “how lush and lusty the grass looks! how green” – Gonzalo
“Tunis was never grac’d before with such a paragon (a perfect model) to their queen” – Adrian (racist? Post-
colonial?)
“Would I have never married my daughter there, for coming thence, my son is lost, and, in my rate, she too” –
Alonso
“That would not bless our Europe with your daughter, but rather lose her to an African, where she, at least, is
banish’d from your eye, who hath cause to wet the grief on’t” (where she, in Africa, to say the least, is banished
Act 1, Scene 1
“You mar our labour, keep your cabins”, “what care these roarers for the name of king” – Boatswain, power
“Use your authority; if you cannot, give thanks you have liv’d so long” – Boatswain to Gonzalo, power
“I have great comfort from this fellow” – Gonzalo, Gonzalo’s character
“You bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog” – Sebastian to Boatswain, Sebastian’s character
“You whoreson, insolent noise-maker” – Antonio to Boatswain, Antonio’s character
“The wills above be done, but I would fain die a dry death” – Gonzalo, religion/God
Act 1, Scene 2
“If by your art, my dearest father, you have put the wild waters in this roar, allay them”, “O I have suffered with
those that I saw suffer” – Miranda, her empathy towards other
“I have done nothing but in care of thee, of thee, my dear one, thee my daughter”, “thou wast that did preserve
me” – Prospero, his empathy
“Not so much as a perdition as an hair betid to any creature in the vessel” – Prospero
“Thy father was Duke of Milan, and a prince of power”, “thy mother was a piece of virtue” – Prospero
“Foul play” – Miranda and Prospero
“My brother and thy uncle… mark me that a brother should be so perfidious”, “thy false uncle”, “in my false
brother awak’d an even nature”, “tell me if this might be a brother” – Prospero, family, brothers
“And Prospero, the prime duke, being so reputed in dignity, and for the liberal arts, without a parallel, those
being all my study – the government I cast upon my brother” – Prospero
“He was the ivy which had hid my princely trunk and suck’s my verdure out on’t” – Prospero
“Neglecting my worldly ends” – Prospero
“Your tale, sir, would cure deafness” – Miranda
“My library was dukedom large enough” – Prospero
“Good wombs have borne bad sons” – Miranda
“A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo, out of his charity… did give us, with rich garments, linens, stuffs and
necessaries… he furnish’d my from mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom” – Prospero
“All hail great master! grave sir, hail! I come to answer thy best pleasure; be’t to fly, to swim, to dive into the
fire, to ride on the curl’d clouds”, “my noble master” – Ariel
“My brave spirit” – Prospero
“Not a hair perish’d”, “I have disper’d them ‘bout the isle” – Ariel
“My liberty”, “remember I have done thee worthy service” – Ariel
, “It was mine art, when I arri’d and heard thee, that made gape the pine, and let thee out” – Prospero, magic
“I will rend an oak and peg the in his knotty entrails, till thou hast howl’d away twelve winters” – Prospero
“Go make thyself a nymph o’ th’ sea” – Prospero, magic
“Caliban, my slave”, “thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself”, ”most lying slave” – Prospero on Caliban
“’Tis a villain, sir, I do not love to look on” – Miranda on Caliban
“To-night thou shalt have cramps, side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up”
“This island’s mine, by Sycorax my mother, which thou tak’st from me”
“Teach me how to name the bigger light, and how the less, that burn by day and night; and then I lov’d thee and
show’d thee all the qualities o’ th’ isle” – Caliban
“Thou didst seek to violate the honour of my child” – Prospero
“I had peopl’d else the isle with Calibans”
“Abhorred slave… I pitied thee, took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour one thing or other”,
“therefore wast thou deservedly confin’d to this rock” – Miranda
“My profit on’t is, I know how to curse” – Caliban
“If thou negect’st… I’ll rack thee with old cramps, fill all thy bones with aches”
“Ariel’s song” – magic
“I might call him a think divine, for nothing natural I ever saw so noble” – Miranda about Ferdinand
“The goddess on whom these airs attend” – Ferdinand about Miranda
“Delicate Ariel, I’ll set thee free for this” – Prospero
“This is the third man I e’er saw; the first that e’er I sigh’d for”, “there’s nothing ill can dwell in such a temple” –
Miranda
“O, if a virgin… I’ll make you The Queen of Naples” – Ferdinand
“But this swift business I must uneasy make, lest too light winning make the prize light” – Prospero
“Might I but through my prison once a day behold this maid. All corners else o’ th’ earth let liberty make use of;
space enough have I in such a prison” - Ferdinand
Act 2, Scene 1
“Here is everything advantageous to life”, “how lush and lusty the grass looks! how green” – Gonzalo
“Tunis was never grac’d before with such a paragon (a perfect model) to their queen” – Adrian (racist? Post-
colonial?)
“Would I have never married my daughter there, for coming thence, my son is lost, and, in my rate, she too” –
Alonso
“That would not bless our Europe with your daughter, but rather lose her to an African, where she, at least, is
banish’d from your eye, who hath cause to wet the grief on’t” (where she, in Africa, to say the least, is banished
