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Stage Quotes by William Shakespeare
- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
- O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!
- All the world is a stage and we are merely players.
- As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.
- I'll privily away; I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes; Though it do well, I do not relish…
- All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.
- 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…
- 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…
- When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
- I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
- To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays…
- O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to…
- We strut and fret our hour upon the stage and then are no more.
- When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left…
- All the world's a stage.
- This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and…
- All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.
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