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 blood more stirsTo rouse a lion than to start a hare!
A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.
Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion
Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are!
They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters?
Lions make leopards tame.
The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love.
Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter’d in one day, and I the elder and more terrible.
O, the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare!
Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.
I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.
Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows
Every one can master a grief but he that has it
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life