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
There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.
What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!
It easeth some, though none it ever cured, to think their dolour others have endured.
Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs?
Slanders, sir, for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging think amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams.
I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.
Indeed, sir, he that sleeps feels not the toothache; but a man that were to sleep your sleep, and a hangman to help him to bed, I think he would change places with his officer; for look you, sir, you know not which way you shall go.
It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.
Good things should be praised.
I am wrapped in dismal thinking.
Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so.
Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago, If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear A stranger to thy thoughts.
There's a time for all things.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.