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
If they only would kill all lawyers and doctors
If they make you not then the better answer, you may say they are not the men you took them for.
I did send to you for certain sums of gold, which you denied me.
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on
Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it
Nothing can seem foul to those that win
Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul oyster
O, no! the apprehension of the goodGives but the greater feeling to the worse.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged a fire sparkling in lovers eyes, being vexed a sea nourished with lovers tears, What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a perserving sweet.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.
Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books;But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee;Corruption wins not more than honesty.
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.
Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues;Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.