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
Beware the ides of March.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Oh what fools we mortals are.
You are made Rather to wonder at the things you hear Than to work any.
Our content Is our best having.
I stand for judgment: answer: shall I have it?
Mine honor is my life, both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done. Then, dear my liege, mine honor let me try; In that I live, and for that I will die.
It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't.
Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.
France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot.
Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind, Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself; And yet the end of all is bought thus dear, The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear To stop the air would hurt them.
Do not give dalliance too much rein; the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in the blood.
Great men should drink with harness on their throats.
Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood.