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
Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)
Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich
Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste: Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
Thanks to men Of noble minds, is honorable meed.
Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.
Men have marble, women waxen, minds.
Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.
By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm.
The error of our eye directs our mind. What error leads must err.
Who alone suffers suffers most i' th' mind, Leaving free things and happy shows behind; But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship.
Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate.
Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages: A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.
Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.
And mind, with my heart in't; and now farewell Till half an hour hence.