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
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit
I to the world am like a drop of waterThat in the ocean seeks another drop,Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.
Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.
A very scurvy fellow.
But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament
I may justly say with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, "I came, saw and overcame".
There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.
And many strokes though with a little axe hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.
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
Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.
Striving to be better, oft we mar what's well.