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
How long a time lies in one little word?
It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.
Men at some time are masters of their fates...
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live.
Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!
In nature there's no blemish but the mind. None can be called deformed but the unkind.
As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.
What's done can't be undone.
Unquiet meals make ill digestions.
Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?
To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.
O, full of scorpions is my mind!