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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Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
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The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
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If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
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Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.
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O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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O that a man might know the end of this day's business ere it come!
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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.