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
How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!
He is well paid that is well satisfied.
All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.
Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!
Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.
In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn;...
Bassanio: Do all men kill all the things they do not love? Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill? Bassanio: Every offence is not a hate at first.
Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?
The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!
Though justice be thy plea consider this, that in the course of justice none of us should see salvation.
I am never merry when I hear sweet music.