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
Beware the ides of March.
I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.
Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.
It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.
Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.
Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty.
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
Men have marble, women waxen, minds.
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.
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!