His wife, Anne Hathaway
"Brevity is the soul of wit" is from Lord Polonious' speech in Shakespeare's Hamlet, in Act II, scene ii.
Brevity is the soul of wit
It means someone misheard the quotation, which is actually "brevity is the soul of wit."
your fat live wit it
Shakespeare's working life was between 1592 and 1613. The first date is an approximation based on Greene's remarks in his Groatsworth of Wit.
Hamlet, Act 2 Scene 2
"Brevity is the soul of wit," and "Out, damned spot! out, I say!" are different quotations from Shakespeare's plays
Robert Greene in his pamphlet Greene's Groatsworth of Wit, published in 1592.
The word "native" in Shakespeare's day meant "born in this place" (as in "though I am native here and to the manor born" from Hamlet) or something one is born with as in "native wit"
Someone who is witty is called a wit.
The quotation is this:Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,I will be brief.It comes from the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, and is spoken by the character Polonius.
A guy called Greene did, in a book called Greene's Groatsworth of Wit. Although some people think that Greene did not actually write that book, and the remarks about Shakespeare are not actually a diss.