William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Now I will believe that there are unicorns."
Tempest quotes
Tempest
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William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!"
Dante Alighieri
Poet, Philosopher
"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."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum."
Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze."
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"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."
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"When I waked, I cried to dream again"
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"You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse"
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"Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake."
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"The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall."
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"Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale."
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"Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises."
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"This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine."
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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."
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"...lest too light winning make the prize light."
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"What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?"
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"As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free."
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"Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone."
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"The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond."
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"Fill all thy bones with aches."
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"Your tale, sir, would cure deafness."
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"Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest."
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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."
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"Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough."
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"Good wombs have borne bad sons." -- (Miranda, I:2)"
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