Shakespeare (1564-1616)

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is 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" or simply "the Bard". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, 3 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 those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.

Quotes

Love is merely madness.
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves if we are underlings.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility;
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger:
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
Tempt not a desperate man.
Why then the worlds mine oyster, Which I with sword shall open.
Why, then 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it [Denmark] is a prison.
O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Miscellaneous
I Would Challenge You To A Battle Of Wits But I See You Are Unarmed.