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
I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is.
O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.
We make trifles of terrors, Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.
The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!
Great men should drink with harness on their throats.
No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.
To you your father should be as a god.
Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave.
A man should be what he seems.
Beauty within itself should not be wasted.
Besides, they are our outward consciences, And preachers to us all, admonishing That we should drew us fairly for our end.
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
Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated