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 had rather chop this hand off at a blow, And with the other fling it at thy face.
Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born, To signify thou camest to bite the world.
Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
Never Play With The Feelings Of Others, Because You May Win The Game But The Risk Is That You Will Surely Lose The Person For Life Time
God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
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.
For she had eyes and chose me.
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.