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
There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.
GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked. . . .
One man in his time plays many parts.
I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so.
Murder most foul, as in the best it it; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.
Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.
I'll speak in a monstrous little voice.
Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit.
For 'tis the sport to have the engineerHoist with his own petard...
There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bond in earth, in sea, in sky. The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls Are their males' subjects and at their controls. Man, more divine, the master of all these, Lord of the wide world and wild wat'ry seas, Indu'd with intellectual sense and souls, Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls, Are masters to their females, and their lords; Then let your will attend on their accords.
What need the bridge much broader than the flood?
The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.
Report me and my cause aright.
Britain is A world by itself, and we will nothing pay For wearing our own noses.