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
The mightiest space in fortune nature bringsTo join like likes and kiss like native things.
His life was gentle, and the elements / So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up / And say to all the world, / This was a man!
That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again.
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.
Like oneWho having into truth, by telling of it,Made such a sinner of his memory,To credit his own lie.
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank.Here will we sit, and let the sounds of musicCreep in our ears; soft stillness, and the nightBecome the touches of sweet harmony.
If music be the food of love, play on: give me excess of it...
Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.
For some must watch, while some must sleep;So runs the world away.
My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul
But when her lips were ready for his pay,He winks, and turns his lips another way.
A lady's verily is as potent as a lord's
For there was never yet a philosopher - that could endure the toothache patiently
He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know 't and he's not robb'd at all