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
I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched in so many giddy offences as He hath generally taxed their whole their whole sex withal.
Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.
O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple.
A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.
Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
Wishers were ever fools.
If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.
Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.
But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.
A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!
Your praises will become your wages.
O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.
A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see .
Let each man do his best.