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
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.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
To you your father should be as a god; One that composed your beauties, yea, and one To whom you are but as a form in wax, By him imprinted, and within his power To leave the figure or disfigure it.
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.
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.
One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
Death rock me asleep.
She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.