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
Patch up thine old body for heaven.
Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
When the mind's free, The Body's delicate.
Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?
Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich
O England! Model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a might heart.
I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not.
Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.
But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.
Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.
I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king. HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing - GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord? HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!
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.