William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth23 April 1564
Things past redress are now with me past care
Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.
Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so, Not what is dangerous present, but the los Of what is past.
Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.
O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.
Remembrance of things past.
Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.
Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.
And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.
Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.
But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do. Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and wrecks not his own.
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought...
The past is prologue.