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
Which means she to deceive, father or mother?
Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.
He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.
If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not
Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.
O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.
He is a heavy eater of beef. Me thinks it doth harm to his wit.
Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.
You'd be so lean, that blast of January Would blow you through and through. Now, my fair'st friend, I would I had some flowers o' the spring that might Become your time of day.
Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.
A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony.
Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.
To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.