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
Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.
If love be blind, it best agrees with night
If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark
And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.
Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.
Our very eyes Are sometimes, like our judgments, blind.
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.
love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit
Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.
But love is blind and lovers cannot see
What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and he but naked, though locked up in steel, whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
The rude sea grew civil at her song,And certain stars shot madly from their spheresTo hear the sea-maid's music.