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…
O, what authority and show of truth
Can cunning sin cover itself withal!
O, what men dare do! What men may do!
What men daily do, not knowing what they do!
One doth not know how much an ill word may empoison liking.
Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy:
I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
That life is better life, past fearing death,
Than that which lives to fear.
Put not yourself into amazement how these things should be: all difficulties are but easy when they are known.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Shame to him whose cruel striking
Kills for faults of his own liking!
Thou bear’st thy heavy riches but a journey,
And death unloads thee.
William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)