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
Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
Farewell, fair cruelty.
Frailty, thy name is woman!
Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.
As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
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.