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
Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night.
My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.
To beguile the time, look like the time.
To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue.
O, reason not the need!
Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.
Were all the letters sun, I could not see one.
Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up tine, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii
one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.