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
Let the end try the man.
...an old man is twice a child.
Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.
Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.
A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?
It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.
Security is the chief enemy of mortals.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!
For I am full of spirit and resolve to meet all perils very constantly.
Who is so firm that can't be seduced?
I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.
The proverb is something musty.
Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.