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
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.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.
I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed.
He hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows.
Thou art the Mars of malcontents.
Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.
I will be master of what is mine own: She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing.
This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.
I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.
The curse of marriage That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites!
Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife!