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 great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change.
Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death.
Words to deeds cold breath gives.
Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.
I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme. . .
Ill deeds is doubled with an evil word.
If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.
Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done: perseverance, dear my lord, Ke
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.
Words pay no debts, give her deeds.