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
More of your conversation would infect my brain.
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!
Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.
All things are ready, if our mind be so.
One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
Highly fed and lowly taught.
The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
I do desire we may be better strangers.
Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)
Let every man be master of his time.