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
Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it; and therefore never floutat me for what I have said against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.
Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woolen.
Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring.
Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.
I will be master of what is mine own: She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing.
This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.
I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.
The curse of marriage That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites!
Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife!
In love the heavens themselves do guide the state; Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.
Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.
Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.
For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is a pattern of celestial peace.
Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.