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 did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.
What a fool honesty is.
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
Men at some time are masters of their fates...
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live.
In nature there's no blemish but the mind. None can be called deformed but the unkind.
Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.
What's done can't be undone.