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 whatsoever else shall hap tonight, Give it an understanding, but no tongue
I would my horse had the speed of your tongue . . .
When the blood burns, how prodigal the soulLends the tongue vows.
He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.
Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.
Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.
Give it an understanding, but no tongue.
By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.
This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.
You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.