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
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend ...
I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.
And simple truth miscalled simplicity
Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from th' entire point.
He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf.
The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself
In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant More learned than the ears.
The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.
Allow not nature more than nature needs.
Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.
I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now.
The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.
No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.