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
Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous
Let me have men about me that are fat, sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights. Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes
I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.
That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me prov'd, I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.
I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
And a man's life's no more than to say "One."
Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.
See the minutes, how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.
Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.
Women may fail when there is no strength in man
Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever