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
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.
Words pay no debts, give her deeds.
A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame.
You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.
For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.
Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.
Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers?
Hot blood begets hot thoughts, And hot thoughts beget Hot deeds, And hot deeds is love.
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.
Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Alas, the frailty is to blame, not we For such as we are made of, such we be
Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated
Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.