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
To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.
O heresy in fair, fit for these days, A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.
There is none but he Whose being I do fear; and under him My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar.
We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.
My master hath been an honorable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him which gentlemen have.
I am thy father's spirit; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purg'd away.
Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.
Who would be so mocked with glory, or to live But in a dream of friendship, To have his pomp and all what state compounds But only painted, like his varnished friends?
How much an ill word may empoison liking!
Foul whisp'rings are abroad.
How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!
A heavier task could not have been impos'd, Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable.
A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.
Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest.