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
Trust not your daughter's minds By what you see them act.
Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.
Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.
A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.
Dreams are the children of idled minds.
There's no better sign of a brave mind than a hard hand.
Love sees with the heart and not with mind.
Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
For trust not him that hath once broken faith
I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots as a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.
The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.
When the mind's free, The Body's delicate.
He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.