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
Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything.
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
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.
The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.