William Shakespeare, The Tempest Quotes

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

...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.

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

So. Lie there, my art.

Let us not burthen our remembrance withA heaviness that's gone.

She will outstrip all praise and make it halt behind her.

At this hourLie at my mercy all mine enemies.

What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyesWould, with themselves, shut up my thoughts...

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

The truth you speak doth lack some gentlenessAnd time to speak it in. You rub the soreWhen you should bring the plaster.

I might call him. A thing divine, for nothing natural. I ever saw so noble.

What's past is prologue.

Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick, Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my furyDo I take part.

O brave new world, That has such people in ’t!-Miranda

Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.

There's meaning in thy snores.

Thought is free.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

O, wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!