William Shakespeare The Tempest Quotes & Sayings

For in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. — William Shakespeare

God is light.
God is knowledge. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is just an endless chain of judgements ... The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success. — B.C. Forbes

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

Come, thou tortoise! — William Shakespeare

Lest too light winning make the prize light. — William Shakespeare

Your instincts may tell you that you can't survive if you experience feelings. But they are leftover child instincts. They're the ones that first told you to freeze your feelings. They themselves are frozen and haven't grown with the rest of you. These instincts don't know that you're far more capable of learning to cope with overwhelming emotion now than when you were a [child]. — Maureen Brady

Caliban: As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island. — William Shakespeare

Thou most lying slave,
Whom stripes may move, not kindness! — William Shakespeare

Fill all thy bones with aches. — William Shakespeare

Like a red morn that ever yet betokened,
Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field,
Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds,
Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds. — William Shakespeare

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

It is a very positive event, being nervous. It allows you to do great things. — Tom Kite

Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone. — William Shakespeare

Wherever Reformed convictions gained a foothold, there was a revival of classical learning and interest in the arts and sciences - not only among the highly educated, but even among the daily laborer, who also had more access to basic education. — Michael S. Horton

As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed
With raven's feather from unwholesom fen
Drop on you both! A southwest blow on ye
And blister you all o'er! — William Shakespeare

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

At this hour
Lie at my mercy all mine enemies. — William Shakespeare

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

The southern wind
Doth play the trumpet to his purposes;
And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves,
Foretells a tempest and a blustering day. — William Shakespeare

If after every tempest come such calms,
May the winds blow till they have waken'd death! — William Shakespeare

Lys. How now, my love? Why is your cheek so pale? How chance the roses there do fade so fast?
Her. Belike for want of rain, which I could well beteem them from the tempest of my eyes. — William Shakespeare

I love the Americans. They are my best friends. — Idi Amin

Pour on, I will endure. — William Shakespeare

I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book. - William Shakespeare, The Tempest — Lev Grossman

Then to the elements be free... — William Shakespeare

To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons. — William Shakespeare

The simplified life is a sanctified life, Much more calm, much less strife. Oh, what wondrous truths are unveiled- Projects succeed which had previously failed. Oh, how beautiful life can be, Beautiful simplicity. — Peace Pilgrim

You mar our labour: keep your cabins:you do assist the storm[ ... ] What cares these roarers for the name of king? — William Shakespeare

Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself
Upon thy wicked dam — William Shakespeare

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad. — Joseph Joubert

Love comforeth like sunshine after rain,
But Lust's effect is tempest after sun.
Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain;
Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done.
Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;
Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies. — William Shakespeare

What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes
Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts ... — William Shakespeare

For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps,
Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins
Shall forth at vast of night that they may work
All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched
As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging
Than bees that made 'em. — William Shakespeare

I didn't paint my paintings to hang in some rich guy's living room, — Ralph Fasanella

Passion feels very democratic. It is the people's talent, available to all. It's also mostly bullshit. — Scott Adams

There's meaning in thy snores. — William Shakespeare

All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors. — Max Lucado