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
Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear,Unpleasing to a married ear!
Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'?
Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend ...
If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark
A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony.
A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.
Much rain wears the marble.
I will do anything ... ere I'll be married to a sponge.
Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come
The ides of March are come. Soothsayer: Ay, Caesar; but not gone.
He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
For bounty, that makes gods, does still mar men.