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 when love speaks, the voice of all the godsMakes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.
I'll speak in a monstrous little voice.
The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.
O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in my face. But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?
Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.
And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.
Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
So many miseries have craz'd my voice, That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.
Opinion crowns with an imperial voice.
Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision.
They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters?
Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop at them; But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Wonder to wait on treason and on murder; And whatsoever cunning fiend it was That wrought upon thee so preposterously Hath got the voice in hell for excellence.
His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.