Tempest Quotes

Now I will believe that there are unicorns.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!

For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved.

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.

I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.

Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze.

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

When I waked, I cried to dream again

You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse

Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos

The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.

Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone.

This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine.

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?

And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.

The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond.

Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon,
as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

...lest too light winning make the prize light.

As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.

Fill all thy bones with aches.

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.

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises.

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

No tempest or conflagration,
however great,
is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.

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

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

Hush! Still as death, The tempest holds his breath As from a sudden will; The rain stops short, but from the eaves You see it drop, and hear it from the leaves, All is so bodingly still.

Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.

Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

Where billows never break, nor tempests roar.

I don't have deal breakers," Alan said. "I look on tempests, and am never shaken.

As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals.

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.

It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work or retrospective work.

If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase.

Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.

Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.