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
The best is yet to come.
Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
I had rather chop this hand off at a blow, And with the other fling it at thy face.
Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
I am a man more sinned against than sinning
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.
These violent delights have violent ends.
More of your conversation would infect my brain.