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
Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.
Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.
How hard it is for women to keep counsel!
It easeth some, though none it ever cured, to think their dolour others have endured.
Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich
Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair, Playing in the wanton air: Through the velvet leaves the wind, All unseen can passage find; That the lover, sick to death, Wish'd himself the heaven's breath.
To persist in doing wrong extenuates not the wrong, but makes it much more heavy.
Experience teacheth that resolution is a sole help in need.
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.
The undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on.
They say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony; Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain; For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.
Faint heart never won fair maid.
Though justice be thy plea consider this, that in the course of justice none of us should see salvation.
The past is prologue.