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 am that merry wanderer of the night.
Love laughs at locksmiths.
Look, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east! Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tip-toe on the misty mountain-tops.
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, From earth to heaven.
Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men?
Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.
The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush.
...lest too light winning make the prize light.
Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
Cowards die many times; a brave man dies but once.
Silence is the perfect herald of joy.
I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill.
Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.