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
Each your doing,So singular in each particular,Crowns what you are doing in the present deed,That all your acts are queens.
Who can control his fate? (Othello, Act v, Sc.2)
Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.
If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.
Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
Strong reasons make strong actions let us go If you say ay, the king will not say no.
Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.
Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.
What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.
The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.
The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.