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
While he was drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed.
But she makes hungry Where she most satisfies...
More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows.
I'll go find a shadow, and sigh till he come" (Phebe)
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her, she would infect to the north star!
What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?
Is this a vision? Is this a dream? Do I sleep?
Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the Dark.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?
A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost...
thou art the best o' the cut-throats
Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy.
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.