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
Done to death by slanderous tongue
Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the Dark.
Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.
It is far easier for me to teach twenty what were right to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.
Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.
What's done can't be undone.
What's done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed.
What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.
Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.
All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.
A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion-- To pray for them that have done scathe to us.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
Be collected. No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done.