The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

—William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare (c. 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is 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" or simply "the Bard"....

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Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

—William Shakespeare

What, is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?

—William Shakespeare

beauty preciousness

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

—William Shakespeare

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

—William Shakespeare

I understand a fury in your words,
But not the words.

—William Shakespeare

More quotations tagged with “memory”

Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

—William Shakespeare

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

—Tryon Edwards

You can fall ill with just a memory.

—Rachel Carson

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

—Michel de Montaigne

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

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