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
Faults that are rich are fair.
I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.
So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men?
Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have, Not knowing them until we know their grave.
Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.
Best men oft are moulded out of faults.
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.
And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.