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
A hundred thousand welcomes: I could weep, And I could laugh; I am light and heavy: Welcome.
Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.
If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy.
The weakest goes to the wall.
It is war's prize to take all vantages; And ten to one is no impeach of valor.
Shall we upon the footing of our land Send fair-play orders, and make compromise, Insinuation, parley, and base truce, To arms invasive?
Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?
Now all the youth of England are on fire, And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies; Now thrive the armorers, and honor's thought Reigns solely in the breast of every man.
Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen! Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!
Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I; every man to his business.
Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.
My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.
Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.
Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.