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
The expense of spirit in a waste of shameIs lust in action.
Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.
The rarer action isIn virtue than in vengeance.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
When faced with a sea of troubles, take action, and in so doing end it.
A woman's thought runs before her actions.
We must not stint Our necessary actions in the fear To cope malicious censurers, which ever, As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow That is new-trimmed, but benefit no further Than vainly longing.
Hold, or cut bowstrings.
I profess not talking: only this, Let each man do his best.
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!
When our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors