Morality

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“I thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated / To closeness and the bettering of my mind / With that which, but by being so retired, / O’er-prized all popular rate, in my false brother / Awaked an evil nature.”

Prospero

Act 1 Scene 2

“So of his gentleness, / Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me / From mine own library with volumes that / I prize above my dukedom.”

Prospero

Act 1 Scene 2

“Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet note / Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of / Our human generation you shall find / Many, nay almost any.”

Gonzalo

Act 3 Scene 3

“You are three men of sin, whom destiny, / That hath to instrument this lower world / And what is in’t, the never-surfeited sea / Hath caused to belch up you.”

Ariel

Act 3 Scene 3

“Methought the billows spoke, and told me of it, / The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder, / That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced / The name of Prosper.”

Alonso

Act 3 Scene 3

“All three of them are desperate. Their great guilt,

/ Like poison given to work a great time after, Now ‘gins to bite the spirits.”

Gonzalo

Act 3 Scene 3