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
Fear no more the heat o the sun, nor the furious winter's rages. Thou thy worldly task hast done, home art gone and taken thy wages.
Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.
I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.
Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone.
The ides of March are come. Soothsayer: Ay, Caesar; but not gone.
No evil lost is wailed when it is gone.
All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.
But love that comes too late, Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried, To the great sender turns a sour offense, Crying, 'That's good that's gone.
O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone!
I feel it gone, yet know not when it left.
What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do; it cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.
She's good, being gone.
Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.