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
He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece.
God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!
Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek.
What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?
What a piece of work is a man
No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger.
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Crack'd in pieces by malignant Death.
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!
But words are words; I never yet did hearThat the bruised heart was pierced through the ear.
What a disgrace it is to me to remember thy name.
We were not born to sue, but to command.
In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read.
And nature must obey necessity.