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
Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity
To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.
So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time
For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours.
Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition
So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.
The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.
Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.
Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.
Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.
If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.
For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.
But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven.
It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.