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
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Tis within ourselves that we are thus or thus
I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.