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
While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.
Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.
Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!
Never shame to hear what you have nobly done
O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!
Let life be short, else shame will be too long.
Past all shame, so past all truth.
Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.
A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame.
O shame, where is thy blush?
My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!
A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.
Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides, Who covert faults at last with shame derides
What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and he but naked, though locked up in steel, whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.