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
Love denied blights the soul we owe to God.
Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate... When in eternal lines to time thou growst So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
As good luck would have it.
He is not great who is not greatly good.
Kiss me, Kate, we shall be married o'Sunday
I humbly do beseech of your pardon, For too much loving you
I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap
Lovers ever run before the clock
Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers?
What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!
They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together. Clubs cannot part them
Love will not be spurred to what it loathes
Men's vows are women's traitors
She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known