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
I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?
I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world
Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart; Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given.
Women's weapons, water-drops.
I have nothing Of woman in me; now from head to foot I am marble-constant.
The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible.
And nature must obey necessity.
The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.
She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.
Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried.
The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.
Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.