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
Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?
To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.
You shall more command with years than with your weapons.
Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.
The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feelings as to sight?
[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess
Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.
Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.
The old folk, time's doting chronicles.
The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.
The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle that's curded by the frost from purest snow.