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
Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.
As good luck would have it.
Every good servant does not all commands.
So far be distant; and good night, sweet friend: thy love ne'er alter, till they sweet life end
There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.
Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
Alas, the frailty is to blame, not we For such as we are made of, such we be
Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.
Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
Beware the ides of March.
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!