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
Conscience is but a word that cowards use, / Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.
Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear,Unpleasing to a married ear!
Good words are better than bad strokes.
So all my best is dressing old words new.
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)
Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
They say the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain.
He would say untruths and be ever double, Both in his words and meaning
But words are words; I never yet did hearThat the bruised heart was pierced through the ear.
In the corrupted currents of this word offence's gilded hand may solve by justice, and oft, tis seen the wicked prize itself buys out the law: but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies in his true nature; And we ourselves