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
As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.
What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.
If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.
Every why has a wherefore.
The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.
What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.
It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.
Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose you resolved to effect.
My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that color.
Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows
Every one can master a grief but he that has it
The blood more stirsTo rouse a lion than to start a hare!
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life
Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.