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
To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof little more than a little is by much too much.
Pardon, gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that have dared on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object.
Better conquest never canst thou make than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts against giddy, loose suggestions.
To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust; But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.
Love yourself; and in that love not unconsidered leave your honor.
Self-love is the most inhibited sin in the canon.
Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.
O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, leave not the mansion so long tenantless; lest, growing ruinous, the building fall and leave no memory of what it was!
You know that love Will creep in service where it cannot go.
Sin will pluck on sin.
Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view.
Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.
On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.
Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.