 | BiographyType: Playwright, Poet, Actor Born: Baptised 26 April 1564 (birth date unknown) Died: 23 April 1616 William Shakespeare, often called the English national poet, is widely considered the greatest dramatist of all time. William Shakespeare was baptized on April 26, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. From roughly 1594 onward he was an important member of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men company of theatrical players. Written records give little indication of the way in which Shakespeare’s professional life molded his artistry. All that can be deduced is that over the course of 20 years, Shakespeare wrote plays that capture the complete range of human emotion and conflict. |
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
Honesty is the best policy.
Of all the wonders that I have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
(Act II, Scene 2)
There are three people in yourself:Who people think you are, Who you think you are, and who you really are.
Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep, - the innocent sleep;
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast.
Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.
That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)
Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Life... is a paradise to what we know of death.
Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves.
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet
Though to itself it only live and die
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.
Men must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither.
Ripeness is all.
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