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
Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.
To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
If there is a good will, there is great way.
The object of Art is to give life a shape.
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...
Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.
They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.
I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.
Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.
He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.
Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words
There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)