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
Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.
I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
And nothing is, but what is not.
To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue.
To beguile the time, look like the time.
A little water clears us of this deed.
Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.
I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.
If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.
Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.