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
Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?
Then happy I that love and am beloved, where I may not remove nor be removed.
Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it.
The gates of monarchs Are arched so high that giants may jet through And keep their impious turbans on without Good morrow to the sun.
All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.
But since the affairs of men rests still incertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall.
Can it be chat modesty may more betray Our sense than woman's lightness?
Things may serve long, but not serve ever.
How much an ill word may empoison liking!
Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.
If ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, then shall you know the wounds invisible that love's keen, arrows make.
For my part, I may speak it to my shame, I have a truant been to chivalry; And so I hear he doth account me too.
Unthread the bold eye of rebellion,And welcome home again discarded faith.
Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?