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
The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.
Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.
"Lawyers Are": Perilous mouths.
Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir.
Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.
If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.
The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo
Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death’s.
If they only would kill all lawyers and doctors
Let us kill all lawyers
Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?
I am a subject, And I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me, And therefore personally I lay my claim To my inheritance of free descent.
When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
Faith, I have been a truant in the law And never yet could frame my will to it, And therefore frame the law unto my will.