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
Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made.
If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.
One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
Make use of time, let not advantage slip.
In time we hate that which we often fear.
Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed.
Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?
To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, All in the morning betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your Valentine.
We are gentlemen that neither in our hearts nor outward eyes envy the great nor shall the low despise.