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
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.
The prince of darkness is a gentleman!
Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.
The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?
For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.
thus with a kiss I die
Educated men are so impressive.
There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)
Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)
Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words
He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.