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
Beware the ides of March.
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
O, had I but followed the arts!
They say miracles are past.
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
Let no such man be trusted.
For my part, it was Greek to me.