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
Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?
Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.
Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.
Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit.
Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.
You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.
Well, God's above all; and there be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved.
Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire; that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.
But jealous souls will not be answered so, They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're jealous. 'Tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.
Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!
Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die! -Posthumus Leonatus Act V, Scene V
Before, I loved thee as a brother, John, But now, I do respect thee as my soul.
[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.