“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!”
William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice
Source: The Merchant of Venice
“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano, A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.”
Source: The Merchant of Venice
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William Shakespeare699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“The world's a stage on which all parts are played.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) English playwright and poet
A Game of Chess (1624), Act v. Sc. 1. Compare: "All the world ’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players", Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act ii. Sc. 7.; "The world ’s a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill", Thomas Heywood, Apology for Actors (1612).
“I take the world to be but as a stage,
Where net-maskt men do play their personage.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
Dialogue between Heraclitus and Democritus. Compare: "All the world ’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players", William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act ii. Scene 7.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
William Shakespeare As You Like It
Jaques, Act II, scene vii.
Variant: 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 time plays many parts.
Source: As You Like It (1599–1600)
“Shakespeare's stage must hold the glass to every age.”
Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897) English poet and critic
The Ancient And Modern Muses
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
First Week, First Day. Compare: "All the world ’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players", William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act ii. Scene 7.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
Theodore L. Cuyler (1822–1909) American minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 116.
