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
Farewell the tranquil mind; farewell content!Farewell the plumed troop and the big warsThat make ambition virtue!
Pride went before, ambition follows him.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels ...
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side
Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!
But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend.
Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition
Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.
Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.
Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!
Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars That make ambition virtue.
Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition: Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away.
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.
Ambition's debt is paid.