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
There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.
Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?
To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures.
The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?
When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
Faith, I have been a truant in the law And never yet could frame my will to it, And therefore frame the law unto my will.
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
And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.
Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.
He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.