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
Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it what you will, shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, and left me bare to weather.
The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven.
If money go before, all ways do lie open.
How soar sweet music is, when time is broke, and no proportion kept!
I am never merry when I hear sweet music.
If I for my opinion bleed, opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt, and keep me on the side where still I am.
Opinion crowns with an imperial voice.
Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.
Weed your better judgments of all opinion that grows rank in them.
Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan The outward habit by the inward man.
All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.
If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.
Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.
Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.