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
What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.
The Eyes are the window to your soul
O, the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us!
Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me.
So shaken as we are, so wan with care.
Not wine... men intoxicate themselves; Not vice... men entice themselves.
Is most tolerable, and not to be endured.
I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion.
O happy dagger!This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.
But will they come when you do call for them?
Put out the light, and then put out the light.
On fortune's cap we are not the very button.
What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?