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
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am nor what I do.
The third day comes a frost, a killing frost.
Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long.
A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.
I'll note you in my book of memory.
I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.
A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.
The choices we make, dictate the lives we lead
You know who you are, but know not who you could be.
For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.
When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.
There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.