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
I wish you all the joy that you can wish.
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
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!
Let no such man be trusted.
There's place and means for every man alive.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.