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
Highly fed and lowly taught.
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
Say as you think and speak it from your souls.
All things are ready, if our mind be so.
You speak an infinite deal of nothing.
Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!
More of your conversation would infect my brain.
These violent delights have violent ends.
I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.