William Shakespeare Quotes
In love the heavens themselves do guide the state;
Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.
Shakespeare, William. The Merry Wives of Windsor. Edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine, Simon & Schuster, 2010, act 5, sc. 5, lines 242-243.
Amongst rich families marriage is often seen as a merger of two fortunes.
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three 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. They also continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
