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
You know that love Will creep in service where it cannot go.
O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, leave not the mansion so long tenantless; lest, growing ruinous, the building fall and leave no memory of what it was!
Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.
Men have marble, women waxen, minds.
Self-love is the most inhibited sin in the canon.
Love yourself; and in that love not unconsidered leave your honor.
To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust; But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.
Better conquest never canst thou make than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts against giddy, loose suggestions.
Pardon, gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that have dared on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object.
Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.
To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof little more than a little is by much too much.
All surfeit is the father of much fast.
A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by, and then his state Empties itself, as dot an inland brook Into the main of waters.
The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness, Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, I have no relish of them, but abound In the division of each several crime, Acting in many ways.