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
POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words.
I go, I go, look how I go, swifter than an arrow from a bow
Men's eyes were made to look, let them gaze, I will budge for no man's pleasure.
You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate, For dainties are all Kates, and therefore, Kate, Take this of me, Kate of my consolation; Hearing thy mildness praised in every town, Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded, Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs, Myself am moved to woo thee for my wife.
O,speak to me no more;these words like daggers enter my ears.(a fancy way of saying SHUT UP!)" — William Shakespeare "hamlet
For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours.
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, to drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears.
I dreamt my lady came and found me dead . . . . . . . . . . . . And breathed such life with kisses in my lips That I revived and was an emperor.
For I am he am born to tame you, Kate; and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as other household Kates.
As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.
Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.
Under loves heavy burden do I sink. --Romeo
Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.