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
The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may have in the sworn twelve a thief or two guiltier than him they try.
I do not much dislike the matter, but the manner of his speech.
Come, my coach! Good-night, ladies; good-night, sweet ladies; good-night, good-night.
Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.
Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used; exclaim no more against it
Brevity is the soul of wit.
What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
He's loved of the distracted multitude, who like not in their judgement, but their eyes.
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
The best is yet to come.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.