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
Experience teacheth that resolution is a sole help in need.
Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair.
To persist in doing wrong extenuates not the wrong, but makes it much more heavy.
Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair, Playing in the wanton air: Through the velvet leaves the wind, All unseen can passage find; That the lover, sick to death, Wish'd himself the heaven's breath.
My heart suspects more than mine eye can see.
Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich
It easeth some, though none it ever cured, to think their dolour others have endured.
How hard it is for women to keep counsel!
Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.
Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.
Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight.
The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.
How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
Women being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the walls.