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
Fill all thy bones with aches.
Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.
The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men.
A kind Of excellent dumb discourse.
As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.
O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!
You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him!
To you your father should be as a god.
Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.
I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true.
O heaven! were man, But constant, he were perfect.
Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.