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 fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.
How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.
Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.
Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.
The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.
Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.
Let each man do his best.
I am that merry wanderer of the night.
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, From earth to heaven.
The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush.
Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.