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William Shakespeare Quotes about Memories

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I'll note you in my book of memory.

I'll note you in my book of memory.

William Shakespeare
Memories, Book, Notes
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.66

Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its sweet oblivious antidote, cleanse the full bosom of all perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Memories, Inspiration

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear

William Shakespeare
Memories, Memorable, Loss
'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 5, sc. 3, l. 19

Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone.

William Shakespeare
Memories, Remembrance, Gone
William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, Alexander Chalmers, Alexander Pope (1826). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies Left by the Late George Steevens, ..., and Edmond Malone, ..., with Mr. Malone's Various Readings ; a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators”, p.91

Memory, the warder of the brain.

William Shakespeare
Memories, Brain
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.75

Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.

William Shakespeare
Memories, Lying, Memorable
William Shakespeare (2008). “The Tempest”, p.27, Palgrave Macmillan

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

William Shakespeare
Memories, Greatness, Men
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [140]

Though now this grained face of mine be hid In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, And all the conduits of my blood froze up, Yet hath my night of life some memory, My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left, My dull deaf ears a little use to hear.

William Shakespeare
Memories, Winter, Night
William Shakespeare (2003). “The Comedy of Errors”, p.174, Oxford University Press, USA

My rage is gone, And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up. Help, three o' th' chiefest soldiers; I'll be one. Beat thou the drum, that it speaks mournfully, Trail your steel spikes. Though in this city he Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury, Yet he shall have a noble memory. Assist.

William Shakespeare
Memories, Book, Cities
William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1853). “The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently Discovered Portfolio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations ; with a History of the Stage, a Life of the Poet, and an Introduction to Each Play”, p.202

Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

William Shakespeare
Brother, Memories, Remembrance
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 1

This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions; these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion.

William Shakespeare
Memories, Simple, Ideas
William Shakespeare (2009). “Three Early Comedies: Love's Labor's Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.86, Bantam Classics

Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest. Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart. Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Memories, Heart
William Shakespeare (2009). “Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth”, p.892, Bantam Classics

Remember thee! Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.

William Shakespeare
Memories, Ghost, Remember
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 95

Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.

William Shakespeare
Life, Memories, Keys
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.221

O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, leave not the mansion so long tenantless; lest, growing ruinous, the building fall and leave no memory of what it was!

William Shakespeare
Memories, Fall, Long
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.126

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain

William Shakespeare
Memories, Brain, Mind
'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 37

Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.

William Shakespeare
Memories, Records, Wipe
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 95

Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, and blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states characterless are grated to dusty nothing, yet let memory, from false to false, among false maids in love, upbraid my falsehood!

William Shakespeare
Memories, Hair, Cities
William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1172, Bloomsbury Publishing

What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.

William Shakespeare
Determination, Memories, Purpose

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