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
The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord! O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls Are level now with men; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.
Thou art a very ragged Wart.
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!
If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends, You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse, That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war: since that to both It stands in like request?
For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas
Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.
Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.
A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers.
We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.
Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them.
Fight to the last gasp.
To whom God will, there be the victory.
Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.