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
When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner
He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
You cram these words into mine ears against The stomach of my sense.
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear
Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.