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
Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.
Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.
And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.
Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.
The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
Some falls the means are happier to rise.
Now the time is come, That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest, And let her head fall into England's lap.
O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, leave not the mansion so long tenantless; lest, growing ruinous, the building fall and leave no memory of what it was!
Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.
Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.
Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue: His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him.
Inconstancy falls off ere it begins.