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…
Think but this, and all is mended:
That you have but slumbered here,
While these visions did appear.
It is not enough to speak, but to speak true.
In the modesty of fearful duty
I read as much as from the rattling tongue
Of saucy and audacious eloquence.
For never any thing can be amiss,
When simpleness and duty tender it.
Merry and tragical! tedious and brief!
That is, hot ice and wondrous strange snow.
How shall we find the concord of this discord?
To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days; the more the pity that some honest neighbors will not make them friends.
Sometime a horse I’ll be, sometime a hound,
A hog, a headless bear, sometime a fire;
And neigh, and bark, and grunt, and roar, and burn,
Like horse, hound, hog, bear, fire, at every turn.
That light we see is burning in my hall.
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
As thou urgest justice, be assured
Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desiresth.
Thou makest thy knife keen; but no metal can,
No, not the hangman’s axe, bear half the keenness
Of thy sharp envy. Can no prayers pierce thee?