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
Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first.
I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered.
First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.
We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst
This day I breathed first: time is come round, And where I did begin there shall I end; My life is run his compass.
It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found: by being ever kept, it is ever lost. ’Tis too cold a companion: away with ’t!
Lay on, McDuff, and be damned he who first cries, 'Hold, enough!
When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows
For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?
Scorn, at first, makes after-love the more.
Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe.
Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.
Every offense is not a hate at first.
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.