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
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice Infects one comma in the course I hold, But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.
The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.
I almost die for food, and let me have it!
If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.
He that keeps not crust nor crum Weary of all, shall want some.
Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.
What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?
My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.
All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.
We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.
No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.
Still constant is a wondrous excellence.
Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.