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
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.
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...
There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.
Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance.
Grace and remembrance be to you both.
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.
Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows
Every one can master a grief but he that has it
The blood more stirsTo rouse a lion than to start a hare!
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life