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
That which I would discover The law of friendship bids me to conceal.
Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha' lost my reputation, I ha' lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!
Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.
Nothing can seem foul to those who win.
That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimms, and makes it indistinct As water is in water
Well-apparel'd April on the heel Of limping Winter treads.
There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.
He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.
Go, bid the soldiers shoot.
I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.
Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.