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
Love is blind, it stops lovers seeing the silly things they do.
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings... All murdered; for within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king, keeps Death his court... and with a little pin bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Perseverance, my dear Lord. Keeps honour bright.
He that is thy friend indeed, he will help you in your need.
Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)
In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.
Ideas are the very coinage of your brain.
Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit
A man should be what he seems.
To have seen much and to have nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands.
Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.
If an army marches on its stomach a Church advances on its knees.
When faced with a sea of troubles, take action, and in so doing end it.
Examine well your blood.