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 have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.
When I waked, I cried to dream again
'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From the world-wearied flesh