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
I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.
He was not so much brain as earwax
Memory, the warder of the brain.
Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.
Ideas are the very coinage of your brain.
A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.
Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.
They are hare-brain'd slaves.
Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled. Be not disturbed with my infirmity.
My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain