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
Discharge my followers; let them hence away, From Richard's night to Bolingbrooke's fair day.
Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you.
In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond...
Faint heart never won fair maid.
But what's so blessed-fair that fears no blot? Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not.
Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts To courtship and such fair ostents of love As shall conveniently become you there.
Fairies use flowers for their charactery.
Faults that are rich are fair.
He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
Fair is foul, and foul is fair:Hover through the fog and filthy air.
So fair and foul a day i had not seen.
She that was ever fair and never proud,Had tongue at will, and yet was never loud.
Was ever book containing such vile matterSo fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwellIn such a gorgeous palace!
An enterprise, when fairly once begun, should not be left till all that ought is won.