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
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.
The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.
If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.
Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.
Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.
Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.
A flock of blessings light upon thy back
And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night ...
Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea.
He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.
There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings.
Tis a cruelty to load a fallen man.
What a piece of work is a man
There is a tide in the affairs of men