Tempest Quotes - Page 2

• ...and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked / I cried to dream again.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Clouds, Riches

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [152]

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• The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

  William Shakespeare

  Action, Vengeance, Virtue

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1156, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse

  William Shakespeare

  Taught, Language, Profit

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 363

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• I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book!

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Sound, Earth

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 5, sc. 1, l. 50

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• When I waked, I cried to dream again

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Caliban, Long Sleep

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [152]

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• O, I have suffered
  With those that I saw suffer!

  William Shakespeare

  Sympathy, Suffering, Saws

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.3813, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Dream, Sleep

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. 148

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• If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, inTruro.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Light, Force, Feels

  Henry David Thoreau (1866). “Cape Cod”, p.146

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• Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Awake, Dear

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.3844, BookCaps Study Guides

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• This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine.

  William Shakespeare

  Darkness, Acknowledge, Mines

  William Shakespeare, Khan (2001). “The Tempest”, p.99, Orient Blackswan

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• I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Hamlet And Ophelia, Important Hamlet

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [291]

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• I would not wish any companion in the world but you.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Wish, World

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.3105, Oxford University Press

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• This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air: thence I have follow’d it.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Passion, Air

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 389

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• Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Sea, Giving

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 1, l. [70]

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• Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises.

  William Shakespeare

  Noise, Isle, Caliban

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [147]

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• And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night.

  William Shakespeare

  Science, Moon, Night

  William Shakespeare, Kathleen Ermitage (2002). “The Tempest”, p.56, Barron's Educational Series

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• When thou cam'st first, 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, and how the less, That burn by day and night; and then I loved thee And showed thee all the qualities o' th' isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Night, Light

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Four Late Plays”, p.357, Wordsworth Editions

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• He receives comfort like cold porridge.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Comfort

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 1, l. 10

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  Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Evil, Hell

  William Shakespeare, Virginia Mason Vaughan, Alden T. Vaughan (1999). “The Tempest: Third Series”, p.164, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Full fathom five thy father lies

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Lying, Nymphs

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 394

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• He that dies pays all debts.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Memorable, Debt

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [143]

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• All is well that ends well

  Emily Rodda

  Wise, Drama, Italian

  Emily Rodda (2008). “The Key to Rondo”, p.332, Scholastic Inc.

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• 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.
  Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
  Ding-dong.
  Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Father, Eye

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 394

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• All's well that ends well.

  John Heywood

  Wise, Wisdom, Drama

  John Heywood (1867). “The proverbs and epigrams of John Heywood: with an app. of variations”, p.21

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• And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.

  William Shakespeare

  Destiny, Past, Prologue

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor”, p.44

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