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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Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd, doth burn the heart to cinders where it is.
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
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It easeth some, though none it ever cured, to think their dolour others have endured.
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If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes.
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How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!
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Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feelings as to sight?
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Yet I do fear thy nature; it is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
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Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich
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Present mirth hath present laughter; what's to come is still unsure.
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Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
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O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.
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Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
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