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
Look like the innocent flowerBut be the serpent under it.
Look down you gods, and on this couple drop a blessed crown.- from The Tempest
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.
Let me have men about me that are fat, sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights. Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
His life was gentle, and the elements / So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up / And say to all the world, / This was a man!
He would say untruths and be ever double, Both in his words and meaning
But words are words; I never yet did hearThat the bruised heart was pierced through the ear.
But here's the joy: my friend and I are one... Then she loves but me alone!
But if the cause be not good, the King himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads chopped off in a battle shall join together at the latter day, and cry all, 'We died at such a place' - some swearing, some crying f
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
But in this kind to come, in braving arms,Be his own carver and cut out his way,To find out right with wrong, it may not be.
But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament
Sleep seldom visits sorrow; when it doth, it is a comforter.
A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.