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
An angel; or, if not, An earthly paragon.
But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men.
God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!
Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked, or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee.
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.
Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.
Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, meeting the check of such another day.
Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith.
No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.
O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.
She's good, being gone.
He makes a July's day short as December.