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
But say, my lord, it were not regist'red, Methinks the truth should live from age to age, As 'twere retailed to all posterity, Even to the general all-ending day.
Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil.
An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.
The heart hath treble wrong When it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue.
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought.
Thanks to men Of noble minds, is honorable meed.
Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain.
Fie, fie, how frantically I square my talk!
Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes.
See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! He that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, That what he feared is chanced.
When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport, But creep in crannies when he hides his beams.
The sun with one eye vieweth all the world.
Indeed, sir, he that sleeps feels not the toothache; but a man that were to sleep your sleep, and a hangman to help him to bed, I think he would change places with his officer; for look you, sir, you know not which way you shall go.