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
A man can die but once.
There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.
O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.
To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.
The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.
Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.
With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature.
He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.
The head is not more native to the heart.
As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.
I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something.
Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.
Love is . . . a madness most discreet
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