William Shakespeare
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
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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the 'not' eternal.
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Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.
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I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.
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The moist star, upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands.
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The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle that's curded by the frost from purest snow.
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The moon's an arrant theif, and her pale fire she snatches from the sun.
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It is the very error of the moon: She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, and makes men mad.
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He's loved of the distracted multitude, who like not in their judgement, but their eyes.
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The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.
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