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
Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.
Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet.
When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.
He doth nothing but talk of his horses.
Heaven - the treasury of everlasting life.
Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
Ambition, the soldier's virtue.
Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.
Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by
When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy, over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing! Doth set my pugging tooth on edge; For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.
Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty.
I wish you all the joy that you can wish.
Let's take the instant by the forward top; For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time Steals ere we can effect them.