The Tempest

By William Shakespeare

QUOTATION: I drink the air before me, and return
Or ere your pulse twice beat.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Ariel, in The Tempest, act 5, sc. 1, l. 102-3.

QUOTATION: Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled.
Be not disturbed with my infirmity.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Prospero, in The Tempest, act 4, sc. 1, l. 159-60.

QUOTATION: Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Trinculo, in The Tempest, act 2, sc. 2, l. 39 (1623).

QUOTATION: We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Prospero, in The Tempest, act 4, sc. 1, l. 156-8 (1623).

QUOTATION: Now my charms are all o’erthrown,
And what strength I have’s mine own,
Which is most faint.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Prospero, in The Tempest, epilogue, l. 1-3.

QUOTATION: A turn or two I’ll walk
To still my beating mind.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Prospero, in The Tempest, act 4, sc. 1, l. 162-3.

QUOTATION: This thing of darkness I
Acknowledge mine.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Prospero, in The Tempest, act 5, sc. 1, l. 275-6.

QUOTATION: Freedom, high-day! high-day, freedom! freedom, high-day, freedom!
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Caliban, in The Tempest, act 2, sc. 2, l. 186-7.

QUOTATION: My library
Was dukedom large enough.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Prospero, in The Tempest, act 1, sc. 2, l. 109-10 (1623).

QUOTATION: There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British poet. The Tempest (III, i).

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