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
If thou dost love, proclaim it faithfully.
What must be shall be.
It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.
Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!
Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.
the time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.
I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
We that are true lovers run into strange capers.
This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven.
I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.
My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.
Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
How is it that the clouds still hang on you?