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
That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimms, and makes it indistinct As water is in water
He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse...
He doth nothing but talk of his horses.
O for a horse with wings!
A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!
I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.
He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.
When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.
As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.
Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen! Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!
Contention, like a horse, Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose, And bears down all before him.
Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth.
Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self-mettle tires him.