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
Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.
O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Time does not have the same appeal for every one
It is the disease of not listening...... that I am troubled with.
I am wealthy in my friends.
If music be the food of love, play on.
I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.
I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.
A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.
Pardon's the word to all.
Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce.
O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!