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
Kindness nobler ever than revenge.
Light and lust are deadly enemies.
The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.
As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.
Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.
Miracles are ceased; and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected.
Can it be chat modesty may more betray Our sense than woman's lightness?
Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.
In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.
Let them obey that knows not how to rule.
What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.
Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue: His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him.
You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.
Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, more than quick words, do move a woman's mind.