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
What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again.
Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.
Omittance is no quittance.
Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs?
For there's no motion That tends to vice in man, but I affirm It is the woman's part.
The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.
Some falls the means are happier to rise.
To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.
And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, Contagious blastments are are most imminent.
Beware Of entrance to a quarrel.
Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.
So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.
Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws.
Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor.