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
The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape
O powerful love,that in some respects makes a beast a man,in some other, a man a beast.
The eagle suffers little birds to sing.
Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.
O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.
The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
It is excellent / To have a giant's strenght / But it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant (Isabella)
The pow'r I have on you is to spare you / The malice towards you, to forgive you. Posthumus
Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble
For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.
Greatness knows itself.
I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.
Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world.