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
Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.
Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee.
In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
Is he on his horse? O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!
So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity.
If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not
QUINCE Francis Flute, the bellows-mender. FLUTE Here, Peter Quince. QUINCE Flute, you must take Thisby on you. FLUTE What is Thisby? a wandering knight? QUINCE It is the lady that Pyramus must love. FLUTE Nay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming.
But that the dread of something after death, the undiscovered country from who bourn no traveler returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than to fly to others that we know not of?
Let come what will, I mean to bear it out, And either live with glorious victorie, Or die with fame renown'd for chivalrie: He is not worthy of the honey-comb, That shuns the hives because the bees have stings
Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
Exit, pursued by a bear.
You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch, therefore bear you the lantern.
So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.
I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born.