Prospero's Quotes: top 19 famous quotes about Prospero's

Prospero's Quotes & Sayings

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What was Aristotle's life?' Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: 'He was born, he thought, he died.' And all the rest is pure anecdote. — Martin Heidegger

Come, thou tortoise! — William Shakespeare

I do not think, Prospero,' he said, 'that one should attribute a very high degree of reality to your house. — John Bellairs

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

Prospero the Enchanter's immediate reaction upon meeting his daughter is a simple declaration of: Well, fuck. — Erin Morgenstern

We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. - PROSPERO, THE TEMPEST, ACT IV, SCENE 1 — Erin Morgenstern

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

I don't direct movies for a living. — Tommy Lee Jones

Without a Prospero-Caliban relationship to balance the Prospero-Ariel one, 'The Tempest' loses much of its resonance. — Robert Gottlieb

Is his benevolent art meant to distract us from Prospero's absolutist exercise of authority over his subjects? — James Shapiro

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

Thou shalt be free
As mountain winds: but then exactly do
All points of my command. — William Shakespeare

We women have to stick together. — Chelsea Handler

I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do. — Jack McDevitt

To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things - that is all we need. — Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out ... He was a considerable talent. — Jim DeRogatis

Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs
putting in his oar, so to speak
with some pat word or sentence. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

It would be like Prospero's island, but in a good way: not a country of exile, a model world, safe and peaceful and private. A magician's land. — Lev Grossman