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
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed...
Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is mad and sent into England." "Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?" "Why, because he was mad. He shall recover his wits there, or, if he do not, it's no great matter there." "Why?" "'Twill not be seen in him there. There the men are as mad as he.
Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest.
Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition
Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth.
Love is begun by time and time qualifies the spark and fire of it.
Yet but three come one more. Two of both kinds make up four. Ere she comes curst and sad. Cupid is a knavish lad. Thus to make poor females mad.
Seek happy nights to happy days.W
There is plenty of time to sleep in the grave
Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting That would not let me sleep.
Done to death by slanderous tongue