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
Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit
Ideas are the very coinage of your brain.
In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.
Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)
Every great drama has its foreshadow.
He that is thy friend indeed, he will help you in your need.
Perseverance, my dear Lord. Keeps honour bright.
I was a coward on instinct.
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings... All murdered; for within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king, keeps Death his court... and with a little pin bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
She is a woman, therefore to be won.
Love is blind, it stops lovers seeing the silly things they do.
Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.
He that is truly dedicated to war hath no self-love
Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.