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
You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised:
I say, without characters, fame lives long.
In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.
Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.
Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?
O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.
O, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.
Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them.
Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
Let's not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that's gone.
Let me be cruel, not unnatural;I will speak daggers to her, but use none.