William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s greatest dramatist and poet. He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon.” His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. The best-selling fiction writer of all time, his most well-known works include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth and Othello.
Quotes by William Shakespeare…
To shame the guise o’ the world, I will begin
The fashion, less without and more within.
Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes:
Some falls are means the happier to arise.
Most miserable
Is the desire that’s glorious: blest be those,
How mean soe’er, that have their honest wills,
Which seasons comfort.
Come, come, and sit you down; you shall not budge;
You go not till I set you up a glass
Where you may see the inmost part of you.
In the corrupted currents of this world
Offence’s gilded hand may shove by justice;
And oft ’tis seen the wicked prize itself
Buys out the law. But ’tis not so above;
There is no shuffling, there the action lies
In his true nature; and we ourselves compell’d,
Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults,
To give in evidence.
What to ourselves in passion we propose,
The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.
The violence of either grief or joy
Their own enactures with themselves destroy:
Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament;
Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.
I do believe you think what now you speak;
But what we do determine oft we break.
Purpose is but the slave to memory.
Give me that man
That is not passion’s slave,
and I will wear him
In my heart’s core,
ay, in my heart of heart,
As I do thee.
I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality, that it is but a shadow’s shadow.
Dreams, indeed, are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.