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
So curses all Eve's daughters of what complexion soever.
If the masses can love without knowing why, they also hate without much foundation.
What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?
Why, who cries out on pride that can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea till the weary very means do ebb?
Profit is a blessing, if it's not stolen.
If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.
Knit your hearts with an unslipping knot.
Temptation: the fiend at my elbow.
Beauty within itself should not be wasted.
Lend less than you owe.
Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger
Let us kill all lawyers
Speak on, but be not over-tedious.
Life's uncertain voyage.