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 is no more mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger.
Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade,He bravely broached his boiling bloody breast.
O, I do not like that paying back, 'tis a double labor.
Woe to that land that's governed by a child.
Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?
The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.
Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.
Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.
I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.
I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age.
I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.
I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol.
I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.
My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires. Yet filed with my abilities.