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
To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown; But where there is true friendship, there needs none.
The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
Keep thy friend Under thy own life's key.
Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.
Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.
We cannot all be masters.
I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety.
They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.
Leave us to our free election.
This liberty is all that I request.