Summary The Tempest Extensive Quotation List (100+)

The Tempest Quotations

Act 1

Topic: Quote(s):
Hierarchies on boat • “What cares these roarers for the name of king?” (Boatswain)
Tempest • “No harm done” (P - M)
• “But are they, Ariel, safe?” (P)
• “I have suffered with those that I saw suffer” (M)
• “Dost thou attend me?” (P - M)

Telling Miranda about • “A prince of power” (P)
past • “The love my people bore me” (P)
• “Thy false uncle” “Evil nature” (P - A)
• "Here cease more questions. Thou art inclined to sleep” (P - M)
• “All hail, great master” (Ar – P) “My brave spirit!” (P – Ar)

Ariel and Prospero’s • “Moody” (P – Ar)
master-servant • “Dost thou forget from what torment I did free thee?” (P – Ar)
relationship
• “Thy groans did make wolves howl” (P – Ar)
• “Once in a month recount” (P – Ar)
• “Thou did promise to bate me a full year” (P – Ar)
• “Poisonous slave, got by the devil himself” “Lying slave” “hag-seed”
(P – C)
• “This island’s mine, by Sycorax my mother”
• “Rack thee with old cramps” (P – C)
• “I loved thee and showed thee all the qualities o’thi’isle” (C – P)
• “I have done nothing but in care of thee” (P – C)
Caliban • “Lodged thee in mine own cell” (P – C)
• “Violate the honor of my child” (P – C)
• “Peopled…this isle with Calibans” (C – P)
• “You taught me language, and my profit on’t is I know how to curse”
(C – P)
• “All the charms of Sycorax…on you” (C – P)
• “His Art is of such power” (C)
• “What is’t?” “A thing divine” (M – F)

Ferdinand • “Charmed from moving” (after drawing sword)
• “He’s a traitor” (P – M)
• “My father’s of a better nature…than he appears by speech” (M -F)