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
Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head
Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.
It shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom.
I to the world am like a drop of waterThat in the ocean seeks another drop,Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Then are dreamt of in your philosophy.
What a disgrace it is to me to remember thy name.
Would I were dead, if God's good will were so,For what is in this world but grief and woe?
Write till your ink be dry, and with your tearsMoist it again, and frame some feeling lineThat may discover such integrity.
Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?
Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; When little fears grow great, great love grows there.
I swear again, I would not be a queen For all the world.
My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am roughand lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.
You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live.
Even through the hollow eyes of death I spy life peering.