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.
Daffodils that come before the swallow dares, and takes the winds of March with beauty.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.
He hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows.
I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed.
For bounty, that makes gods, does still mar men.
Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear,Unpleasing to a married ear!
The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
Striving to be better, oft we mar what's well.
I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs.
It shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom.
Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting.
They are but beggars that can count their worth, but my true love is grown to such excess, I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth.