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
Beauty within itself should not be wasted.
Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.
All that glisters is not gold.Often you have heard that told:Many a man his life hath soldBut my outside to behold:Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man
All is but toys: renown, and grace, is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of
His life was gentle, and the elements / So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up / And say to all the world, / This was a man!
Heigh ho! sing, heigh ho! unto the green holly:Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:Then heigh ho, the holly!This life is most jolly.
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life
Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause; there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life
But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool;And time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop.
Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it
I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs.