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
Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest.
A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.
A heavier task could not have been impos'd, Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable.
How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!
Foul whisp'rings are abroad.
How much an ill word may empoison liking!
Who would be so mocked with glory, or to live But in a dream of friendship, To have his pomp and all what state compounds But only painted, like his varnished friends?
Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.
I am thy father's spirit; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purg'd away.
My master hath been an honorable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him which gentlemen have.
We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.
There is none but he Whose being I do fear; and under him My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar.
O heresy in fair, fit for these days, A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.
To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.