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
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
Farewell, fair cruelty.
I dote on his very absence.
I bear a charmed life.
Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.
To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance
Conscience doth make cowards of us all.