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
Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.
To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.
For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.
Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.
Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it.
There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond; And do a willful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dressed in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity profound conceit; As who should say, I am sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.
Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.
With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.
There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.
All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare