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
My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.
Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.
A man I am cross'd with adversity.
If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.
Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor.
Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws.
So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.
Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.
Beware Of entrance to a quarrel.
And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, Contagious blastments are are most imminent.
To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.
Some falls the means are happier to rise.
The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.
For there's no motion That tends to vice in man, but I affirm It is the woman's part.