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
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages
All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.
All these woes shall serveFor sweet discourses in our time to come.
All that glisters is not gold.Often you have heard that told:Many a man his life hath soldBut my outside to behold:Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
All the infections that the sun sucks upFrom bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make himBy inch-meal a disease!
And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted
And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool -- motley's the only wear.
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
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.