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
You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely
They are but beggars that can count their worth, but my true love is grown to such excess, I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth.
There was never virgin got till virginity was first lost
There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. . . . There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance or death.
This is the monstrosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit.
This is the way to kill a wife; with kindness.
This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it, Like to a tenement or pelting farm: England, bound in with the triumphant sea Whose rocky shore beats back the envi
An enterprise, when fairly once begun, should not be left till all that ought is won.
A rarer spirit neverDid steer humanity; but you, gods, will give usSome faults to make us men.
And then it started like a guilty thingUpon a fearful summons.
As from a bear a man would run for life, So fly I from her that would be my wife
The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps over a cold decree.
A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.