About William Shakespeare:

William Shakespeare is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two 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.

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Our nearness to the king in love is nearness to those who love not the king.

William Shakespeare

Deal mildly with his youth; for young hot colts, being rag's, do rage the more.

William Shakespeare

In thy foul throat thou liest.

William Shakespeare

My grief lies all within; and these external manner of laments are merely shadows of the unseen grief that swells with silence in the tortur'd soul.

William Shakespeare

Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.

William Shakespeare

Mine honor is my life; both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done.

William Shakespeare

Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.

William Shakespeare

My brain I'll prove the female to my soul; my soul the father: and these two beget a generation of still-breeding thoughts, and these same thoughts people this little world.

William Shakespeare

Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal the mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne.

William Shakespeare

Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself. Give me that glass and therein will I read. No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck So many blows upon this face of mine And made no deeper wounds? ...

William Shakespeare

And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

William Shakespeare

The shadow of my sorrow. Let's see, 'tis very true. My griefs lie all within and these external manners of laments are mere shadows to the unseen grief which swells with silence in the tortured soul. There lies the substance.

William Shakespeare

For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done.

William Shakespeare

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. Act V, Scene V

William Shakespeare

What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.

William Shakespeare

Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

William Shakespeare

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

William Shakespeare

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.

William Shakespeare

Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

William Shakespeare

The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.

William Shakespeare

Author Bio

NameWilliam Shakespeare
DescriptionEnglish playwright and poet
AliasesShakespeare; The Bard; The Bard of Avon
Born1564
DiedMay 3, 1616
CountryEngland
ProfessionPlaywright; Poet; Stage Actor; Writer
WorksHamlet; Romeo And Juliet; As You Like It; Macbeth; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Shakespeare's Sonnets

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About William Shakespeare:

Author Bio