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
How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!
Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!
Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep.
This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.
I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.
To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!
Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.
Why what a fool was I to this drunken monster for a God. - Caliban
Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!
Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.
But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool;And time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop.
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad
More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows.
The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.