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
As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.
A maiden hath no tongue--but thought.
The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.
Light and lust are deadly enemies.
Kindness nobler ever than revenge.
The presence of a king engenders love Amongst his subjects, and his royal friends.
The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing.
By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm.
Inconstancy falls off ere it begins.
Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.
Haste is needful in a desperate case.
Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; which therein works a miracle in Nature, making them lightest that wear most of it: so are those crisped snaky golden locks which make such wanton gambols with the wind upon supposed fairness, often known to be the dowry of a second head, the skull that bred them in the sepulchre.
Allow not nature more than nature needs.
The error of our eye directs our mind. What error leads must err.