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
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.
They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.
Tis within ourselves that we are thus or thus
Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.
To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
The object of Art is to give life a shape.
If there is a good will, there is great way.
I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
To weep is to make less the depth of grief.