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
I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by daylight
I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad
I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses
What need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live; That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies, And sleep in spite of thunder
We cannot fight for love as men may do; We should be woo'd, and were not made to woo
Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide them all
What a taking was he in when your husband asked who was in the basket!
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!
What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet
Tones that sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.