1"Merrily, merrily do I live now, under the blossoms that hangs on the bough.”
5:1; Ariel's joyous tune of freedom
2"All hail, great master! Grave sir, hail! I come To answer thy best pleasure, be 't to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride On the curled cloud. To thy strong bidding, task Ariel and all his quality."
1:2; Ariel offers a myriad of magical abilities to Prospero, which is echoed later in the play by Prospero's recounting his own abilities."
3"Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains, Let me remember thee what thou hast promised, Which is not yet performed me. ... My liberty."
1:2; Ariel reminds Prospero of the conditional nature of his servitude
4"Yes, Caliban her son."
1:2; Ariel humanises Caliban, where Prospero describes him as a 'freckled whelp ... not honoured with human shape.'
5"Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange."
1:2; Ariel's song to Ferdinand
6"You are three men of sin, … you 'mongst men Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad."
3:3; Ariel's harpy speech
7"Your charm so strongly works 'em That, if you now beheld them, your affections Would become tender. ... Mine would sir, were I human."
5:1; Ariel demonstrates a level of compassion in persuading Prospero that Prospero himself has never displayed, and Ariel even slyly points this out by implying that Prospero has become inhuman, much like the Caliban whom he was insulting and abusing for being so
8"Do you love me master? No?"
4:1; seeing the love between Miranda and Prospero, and Ferdinand and Miranda, Ariel becomes conscious of himself, asking Prospero this question, to which he gives no answer
9"Thou liest."
3:2; the first use of this is ambiguous—it could be Ariel trying to stir trouble with Caliban, Stephano and Trinculo, but it could be that he genuinely believes in a good-natured Prospero
10"When I presented Ceres I thought t'have told thee of it, but I feared Lest I might anger thee."
4:1; Ariel is so daunted by the prospect of Prospero's anger that he avoids telling him vital information in case Prospero might 'shoot the messenger'