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
Hate pollutes the mind.
This is some fellow, Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness and constrains the garb Quite from his nature: he can't flatter, he! An honest mind and plain,--he must speak truth! And they will take it so; if not he's plain. These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness Harbor more craft, and far corrupter ends, Than twenty silly, ducking observants, That stretch their duty nicely.
Pray, do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.
And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.
We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.
The mind of guilt is full of scorpions.
Would the cook were o' my mind!
We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.
It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.
Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds