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.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.
Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.
This is the short and the long of it.
Cursed be he that moves my bones.
We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.
Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.
It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.
Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.
My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.
What the great ones do, the less will prattle of
It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.