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
In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness ;thrust upon em.
In nature there is no blemish but the mind: none can be called deformed but the unkind
In nature's infinite book of secrecyA little I can read.
The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched unfledged comrade.
The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn
The heavens themselves, the planets and this centreObserve degree, priority and place.
The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed; And extreme fear can neither fight nor fly, But coward-like with trembling terror die
And it is greatTo do that thing that ends all other deeds,Which shackles accidents, and bolts up change.
And many strokes though with a little axe hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
And nothing can we call our own but deathAnd that small model of the barren earthWhich serves as paste and cover to our bones.For God's sake, let us sit upon the groundAnd tell sad stories of the death of kings.
All, with one consent, praise newborn gawds (sic), though they are made and molded of things past