Tempest Quotations

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul.The sea was calm and the sky was blue; Merrily, merrily sailed we two.(High barometer maketh glad.) On the tipsy ship, with a dreadful shout, The tempest descended and we fell out.(O the walking is nasty bad!) --Armit Huff Bettle

Reporter, n.: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world.

When it comes to the teapot tempest that is the Hillary Clinton email imbroglio, the real controversy isn't about politics or regulations. It's about journalism and the weak standards employed to manufacture the scandal du jour.

Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos

Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.

Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti. Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.

It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work or retrospective work.

Worm or beetle -- drought or tempest -- on a farmer's land may fall,Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.

Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.

Without this edition, eighteen of Shakespeare's plays including some of his most famous like Macbeth, The Tempest and other plays would have been lost for all time. It's the only surviving source for eighteen of Shakespeare's plays. With regard to this particular copy of the first folio, it's remarkable because it's preserved in it's original seventeenth century binding. There's no other copy in the world in private hands preserved in a seventeenth century binding complete with all it's text leaves.

An horrid stillness first invades the ear, / And in that stillness we the tempest fear.

The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon - forms unrivaled even by the mountains, colors that vie with sunsets, and sounds that span the diapason from tempest to tinkling raindrop, from cataract to bubbling fountain.

This is all a tempest in a teapot,

I am a substantial person, and so is my wife. We have done nothing illegal and we have done nothing but suffer. It was a tempest in a teapot.

I saw all of the films [based on The Tempest] available, including the one with Helen Mirren in which Prospero is Prospera - you wonder, "Would it work?" But it does, because anything she does works.

Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.

No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.

As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals.

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

I don't have deal breakers," Alan said. "I look on tempests, and am never shaken.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

Look down you gods, and on this couple drop a blessed crown.- from The Tempest

What showers arise, blown with the windy tempest of my heart

A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!

This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine.

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

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

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

Good wombs have borne bad sons." -- (Miranda, I:2)

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

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.

I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.

Fill all thy bones with aches.

Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone.

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises.

When I waked, I cried to dream again

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

Now I will believe that there are unicorns...

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

...lest too light winning make the prize light.

The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond.

Hush! Still as death, The tempest holds his breath As from a sudden will; The rain stops short, but from the eaves You see it drop, and hear it from the leaves, All is so bodingly still...

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.

Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze.

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.