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
Are you come to meet your trouble? The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
Fashion wears out more clothes than the man.
New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed.
O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion, And having that do choke their service up Even with the having. . . .
Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation
What's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the Roman fashion.
Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions.
But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.
Thou art not for the fashion of these times,Where none will sweat but for promotion.
A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.
The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony.
I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.
I know them, yea, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple; Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys, That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander, Go antickly, and show outward hideousness, And speak off half a dozen dangerous words, How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst; And this is all.