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
Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.
Ambition, the soldier's virtue.
Angels and ministers of grace defend us.
Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.
God, the best maker of all marriages, Combine your hearts into one.
You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil....O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!
I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss.
Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by
Love is a spirit all compact of fire.
When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy, over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing! Doth set my pugging tooth on edge; For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.
The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.