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
Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.
The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb.
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.
An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.
Things may serve long, but not serve ever.
More can I bear than you dare execute.
Our enemies are our outward consciences.
I am wrapped in dismal thinking.
The error of our eye directs our mind. What error leads must err.
Allow not nature more than nature needs.
Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; which therein works a miracle in Nature, making them lightest that wear most of it: so are those crisped snaky golden locks which make such wanton gambols with the wind upon supposed fairness, often known to be the dowry of a second head, the skull that bred them in the sepulchre.
Haste is needful in a desperate case.
Inconstancy falls off ere it begins.
By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm.