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
How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!
Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.
Tis a happy thing To be the father unto many sons.
Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.
It is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change.
Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.
I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.
Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.
Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures.
Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court.
That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
The eagle suffers little birds to sing.
Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters.