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
For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.
Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy.
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.
How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
How use doth breed a habit in a man.
Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.
The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
He hath eaten me out of house and home.
For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men.
Small to greater matters must give way.
From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers.
Although the last, not least.