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
There's rosemary and rue. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Grace and remembrance be to you.
Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.
Remembrance of things past.
Grace and remembrance be to you both.
Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone.
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...
Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.
I cannot but remember such things were that were most precious to me.
There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.
Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance.
What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and he but naked, though locked up in steel, whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
The rude sea grew civil at her song,And certain stars shot madly from their spheresTo hear the sea-maid's music.
The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief: He robs himself that spends a bootless grief