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
All, with one consent, praise newborn gawds (sic), though they are made and molded of things past
Fortune, good night; smile once more, turn thy wheel
I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the anciently, stealing, fighting.
Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head
O! it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows
Sorrow ebbs, being blown with wind of words.
Kindness, nobler ever than revenge (A Y L I, Act iv, Sc.3)
...the spring, the summer,The chilling autumn, angry winter, changeTheir wonted liveries; and the mazed worldBy their increase, now knows not which is which.
I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.
I am giddy, expectation whirls me round.The imaginary relish is so sweetThat it enchants my sense.
He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
The night is long that never finds the day.
In the world I fill up a place, which may be better supplied when I have made it empty