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
When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.
When valor preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.
Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canter dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all.
Anger's my meat. I sup upon myself, And so shall starve with feeding.
My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.
What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?
Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.
He that keeps not crust nor crum Weary of all, shall want some.
If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.
I almost die for food, and let me have it!
Unquiet meals make ill digestions.
He hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink.
He that is proud eats up himself; pride in his glass, his trumpet, his chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise
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.