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 declined Into the vale of years.
I would that I were low laid in my grave. I am not worth this coil that's made for me.
What is aught but as 'tis valued?
Would I were dead, if God's good will were so, For what is in this world but grief and woe?
Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection, Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.
Good words are better than bad strokes.
Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught?
Two women placed together makes cold weather.
Fair ladies, masked, are roses in their bud; Dismasked, the damask sweet commixture shown, Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.
O most delicate fiend! Who is't can read a woman? Is there more?
But indeed an old religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an inland man; one that knew courtship too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard him read many lectures against it; and I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy offenses as he hath generally taxed their whole sex withal.
Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.
Ah me, how weak a thing The heart of woman is!
A woman impudent and mannish grown Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man.