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
I see a man's life is a tedious one.
A man should be what he seems.
What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?
Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.
O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!
There's daggers in men's smiles.
They say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony; Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain; For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.
It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another.
The undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on.
Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.
The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.
O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple.
A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.
Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.