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
Kindness, nobler ever than revenge (A Y L I, Act iv, Sc.3)
Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me,From mine own library with volumes thatI prize above my dukedom.
I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the anciently, stealing, fighting.
I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed.
I would my horse had the speed of your tongue . . .
My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give thee, the more I have, For both are infinite
Why then the worlds mine oyster, Which I with sword shall open.
Who is Silvia? What is she, / That all our swains commend her? / Holy, fair, and wise is she.
Who can control his fate? (Othello, Act v, Sc.2)
Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious,Loyal and neutral, in a moment?No man.
While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.
Well could I curse away a winter's night,Though standing naked on a mountain top,Where biting cold would never let grass grow,And think it but a minute spent in sport.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.