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
Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.
For by his face straight shall you know his heart.
For love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy
You know who you are, but know not who you could be.
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
Is it possible he should know what he is, and be that he is?
Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.
You know that love Will creep in service where it cannot go.
Let them obey that knows not how to rule.
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.