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
Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities.
Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.
RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
I cannot speak your england.
[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.
So are you to my thoughts as food to life, or as sweet seasoned showers are to the ground.
I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.
At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.
Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.
Nice customs curtsy to great kings.
Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare.
He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.
I never yet did hear, That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear