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
Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead!
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
A friend i'the court is better than a penny in purse.
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.
All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.
Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows
Every one can master a grief but he that has it
The blood more stirsTo rouse a lion than to start a hare!
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life