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
Lions make leopards tame.
To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning.
Promising is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation.
Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity.
But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.
Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.
Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
The people are the city.
But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Of every wind that blows.
When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection.
All hoods make not monks.
France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot.
Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother's father dad.
I can no longer live by thinking.