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
Where the greater malady is fixed, The lesser is scarce felt.
And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That makes ingrateful man!
Be collected. No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done.
You are made Rather to wonder at the things you hear Than to work any.
How every fool can play upon the word!
A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?
Doubting things go ill often hurts more Than to be sure they do; for certainties Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing, The remedy then born.
I do not set my life at a pin's fee, And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?
A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words.
I that please some, try all, both joy and terror Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.
Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.
Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.
Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!
Do not speak like a death's-head, do not bid me remember mine end.