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
Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.
Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance
To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title, Romeo, Doth thy name! And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.
All's well if all ends well.
I bear a charmed life.
I dote on his very absence.
Farewell, fair cruelty.
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.