Politics Quotes by William Shakespeare

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

— William Shakespeare

“Fit to govern? No, not fit to live.”

— William Shakespeare

I can give the loser leave to chide.

— William Shakespeare

I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age.

— William Shakespeare

Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?

— William Shakespeare

Woe to that land that's governed by a child.

— William Shakespeare

A politician... one that would circumvent God.

— William Shakespeare

Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician,…

— William Shakespeare

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

— William Shakespeare

Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.

— William Shakespeare

O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!

— William Shakespeare

Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.

— William Shakespeare

I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have…

— William Shakespeare

I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power,…

— William Shakespeare

The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

— William Shakespeare

That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it…

— William Shakespeare

Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the…

— William Shakespeare

“So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time: And power, unto itself most commendable, Hath not a tomb so evident…

— William Shakespeare

“Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us that are squires of the night’s body be called thieves of…

— William Shakespeare

“Gardener: ...Go thou, and like an executioner, Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays, That look too lofty in our…

— William Shakespeare

I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge…

— William Shakespeare

There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.

— William Shakespeare

I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol.

— William Shakespeare

Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.

— William Shakespeare

For conspiracy, I know not how it tastes, though it be dished For me to try how.

— William Shakespeare

My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires. Yet filed with my abilities.

— William Shakespeare

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner

— William Shakespeare

I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.

— William Shakespeare

Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King?

— William Shakespeare