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
And all my mother came into mine eyes And gave me up to tears.
Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be, Yet hold I off.
Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain.
Venus smiles not in a house of tears.
The liquid drops of tears that you have shed Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl, Advantaging their loan with interest Of ten times double gain of happiness.
Tears harden lust, though marble wear with raining.
Nature's tears are reason's merriment.
How many a holy and obsequious tear hath dear religious love stolen from mine eye, as interest of the dead!
Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
If the boy have not a woman's gift To rain a shower of commanded tears, An onion will do well for such a shift.
Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.
Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? Scorn and derision never come in tears: Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born, In their nativity all truth appears. How can these things in me seem scorn to you, Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?
Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.