“If music be the food of love, play on.”

— William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 1

About William Shakespeare

1564 – 1616

English playwright and poet, author of 'Hamlet', 'Macbeth' and 'Romeo and Juliet'.

“To thine own self be true.”

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

“A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.”

“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”

“Beauty starvation is almost as widespread as love starvation.”

“Life isn't long enough for love and art.”

“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”

“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”