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
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.
Good counselors lack no clients.
This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.
When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand.
I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.
Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.
O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?
A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.
When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.
Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.
Ay, is it not a language I speak?
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.