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
Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear
Let them obey that knows not how to rule.
In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.
Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.
Can it be chat modesty may more betray Our sense than woman's lightness?
Miracles are ceased; and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected.
Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.
As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.
A maiden hath no tongue--but thought.
The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.
Light and lust are deadly enemies.
Kindness nobler ever than revenge.
The presence of a king engenders love Amongst his subjects, and his royal friends.
The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing.