He is recognized as one of literature's greatest influences, very little is actually known about him. What we do
know about his life comes from registrar records, court records, wills, marriage certificates and his tombstone.
Anecdotes and criticisms by his rivals also speak of the famous playwright and suggest that he was indeed a playwright, dramatist, poet and an actor.
Especially Shakespeare's reputation as dramatist and poet actor is unique but many of the facts of his life remain mysterious.
(1564 -1616)
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players:
they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
~ William Shakespeare
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
~ William Shakespeare
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
~ William Shakespeare
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
~ William Shakespeare
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
~ William Shakespeare
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
~ William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
~ William Shakespeare
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
~ William Shakespeare
A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
~ William Shakespeare
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
~ William Shakespeare
I wish you all the joy you can wish.
~ William Shakespeare
We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
~ William Shakespeare
I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.
~ William Shakespeare
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
~ William Shakespeare
Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on
faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere
'Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none.
~ William Shakespeare
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
~ William Shakespeare
The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right!
~ William Shakespeare
There is tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to
fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in
miseries; on such a full sea we are now afloat; and we must take the current
the clouds folding and unfolding beyond the horizon. when it serves, or lose
our ventures.
~ William Shakespeare
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
~ William Shakespeare
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
~ William Shakespeare
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
~ William Shakespeare
Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha lost my reputation, I
ha lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!
~ William Shakespeare
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his
hour upon the stage And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by an
idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying Nothing.
~ William Shakespeare
English Victorian era author wrote numerous highly acclaimed novels David Copperfield.
He became known the world over for his remarkable characters, his mastery of prose in the telling of their lives,
and his depictions of the social classes, mores and values of his times. Some considered him the spokesman for the
poor, for he definitely brought much awareness to their plight, the downtrodden and the have-nots.
Dickens's novels combine brutality with fairy-tale fantasy; farce, and melodrama.; the ordinary with the strange.
They range through the comic, tender, dramatic, sentimental, grotesque, melodramatic, horrible, eccentric, mysterious.
(1812-1870)
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
~ Carl Sagan
The difference between what the most and the least learned people
know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
~ Albert Einstein
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
~ Edwin Hubble
