William Shakespeare
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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
Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated
How well he's read, to reason against reading!
Words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.
Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.
Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.
If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.
The will of man is by his reason sway'd.
Nature's tears are reason's merriment.
Passion makes the will lord of the reason.
Good reasons must of force give place to better.
Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Alas, the frailty is to blame, not we For such as we are made of, such we be
Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.
And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.