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 a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.
Best men oft are moulded out of faults.
Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.
After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.
England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune.
England is safe, if true within itself.
He that dies this year is quit for the next.
A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion-- To pray for them that have done scathe to us.
The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.
Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's.
Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge And make us heirs of all eternity.
So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant And breathe short-winded accents of new broils To be commenced in stronds afar remote.
Gently to hear, kindly to judge.