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
It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.
Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!
Thou knowest, winter tames man, woman, and beast.
Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !
I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.(IAGO,ActI,SceneI)
To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
O powerful love,that in some respects makes a beast a man,in some other, a man a beast.
Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.
What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet
When our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors