William Shakespeare 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.

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.

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.