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
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, All in the morning betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your Valentine.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death
The rarer action isIn virtue than in vengeance.
There are a sort of men whose visagesDo cream and mantle like a standing pond.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
Warble, child; make passionate my sense of hearing.
This world to me is like a lasting storm,Whirring me from my friends.
'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
Tis not enough to help the feeble up, But to support him after
Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale
Tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow; But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself
Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides, Who covert faults at last with shame derides
You maid of hindering knot grass. You bead! You acorn!