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
Rashly, And praised be rashness for it--let us know, Our indiscretion sometime serves us well When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will
We must follow, not force Providence.
I do not know What kind of my obedience I should tender. More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers Are not words holy hallowed, nor my wishes More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes Are all I can return.
Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All many be well.
Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!
If yon bethink yourself of any crime Unreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace, Solicit for it straight.
In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends, To reap the harvest of perpetual peace By this one bloody trial of sharp war.
Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.
Passion makes the will lord of the reason.
Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.
Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.
If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.
All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.
Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan The outward habit by the inward man.