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
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur and the pouring dark Fill the wide vessel of the universe... Chorus Henry V
And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Forget, forgive; conclude, and be agreed.