The Tempest

Famous quotes

• I have suffered
  With those that I saw suffer!

  Act I, Scene II, spoken by MirandaIn context

  • Emotion

• What seest thou else
  In the dark backward and abysm of time?

  Act I, Scene II, spoken by ProsperoIn context

  • Time

• Me, poor man, my library
  Was dukedom large enough

  Act I, Scene II, spoken by ProsperoIn context

  • Reading

• Hell is empty,
  And all the devils are here.

  Act I, Scene II, spoken by ArielIn context

  • Good & Evil

• 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!

  Act I, Scene II, spoken by CalibanIn context

  • Education
  • Talking

• Full fathom five thy father lies.
  Of his bones are coral made.
  Those are pearls that were his eyes.
  Nothing of him that doth fade
  But doth suffer a sea-change
  Into something rich and strange.

  Act I, Scene II, spoken by ArielIn context

  • Change
  • Life & Death

• What’s past is prologue

  Act II, Scene I, spoken by AntonioIn context

  • History
  • Time

• He smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell

  Act II, Scene II, spoken by TrinculoIn context

  • Comedy

• Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

  Act II, scene ii.In context

• Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,
  Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.

  Act III, Scene II, spoken by CalibanIn context

  • Music
  • Nature

• We are such stuff
  As dreams are made on; and our little life
  Is rounded with a sleep.

  Act IV, scene i.In context

  • Life & Death
  • Sleep

• Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
  In a cowslip’s bell I lie;
  There I couch when owls do cry.
  On the bat’s back I do fly
  After summer merrily.
  Merrily, merrily shall I live now
  Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

  Act V, Scene I, spoken by ArielIn context

  • Happiness
  • Nature

• O, wonder!
  How many goodly creatures are there here!
  How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
  That has such people in ’t!

  Act V, Scene I, spoken by MirandaIn context

  • Beauty
  • Hope

• As you from crimes would pardon’d be,
  Let your indulgence set me free.

  EpilogueIn context

  • Forgiveness
  • Freedom

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