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
However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.
Gold--what can it not do, and undo?
Friendship's full of dregs.
Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly. This life is most jolly.
Friendship is full of dregs.
Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything.
Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.
Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.
Best men oft are moulded out of faults.
Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.
After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.
England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune.
England is safe, if true within itself.