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
Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life.
Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.
Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Yet this my comfort: when your words are done, My woes end likewise with the evening sun.
For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.
I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty.
Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born? When at your hands did I deserve this scorn? Is't not enough, is't not enough, young man, That I did never, no, nor never can, Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye, But you must flout my insufficiency?
When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up tine, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so; And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.