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
Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee.
In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek: I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques and revels sometimes altogether (He's an oddity in that he enjoys having fun)
Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
Farewell, fair cruelty.
Frailty, thy name is woman!
Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.
As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.