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
Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts To courtship and such fair ostents of love As shall conveniently become you there.
I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms.
As for my wife, I would you had her spirit in such another; The third o' th' world is yours, which with a snaffle You may pace easy, but not such a wife.
Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle?
I crave fit disposition for my wife; Due reference of place, and exhibition; With such accommodation, and besort, As levels with her breeding.
Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail.
So many miseries have craz'd my voice, That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.
Slanders, sir, for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging think amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams.
I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.
A good wit will make use of anything.
Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it.
The will of man is by his reason sway'd.
The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony.
A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.