All The World Is A Stage Quotes

#1. For literature, all the world is a stage.

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

#2. Emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.

Iris Murdoch

#3. For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Neil Postman

#4. All the world is a stage...and I have plenty of tomatoes.

Derek Fox

#5. All the world is a stage and we are merely players.

William Shakespeare

#6. If all the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players, where do all the audiences come from?

Denis Norden

#7. If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

George Carlin

#8. If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.

Robert Browning

#9. For me, the world is a stage, and we are all playing the character we have chosen to play on that stage. It is the job of the photographer to capture the drama of the performance.

Alix Smith

#10. The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in a realm of mystery and wonder, where duty, discipline, and sacrifice are required-and where the reward is that love which passeth all understanding.

Russell Kirk

#11. The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.

Louis Theroux

#12. What we are witnessing at the moment is a rearrangement of the world in an intermediate stage; the change is not in the use of a natural force but in the application of technique to all spheres of life.

Jacques Ellul

#13. The only reason you need me at all, John, is because Magick actually works. If it were all just smoke and mirrors and stage magic, if the world worked the way religion or science says it works, then we wouldn't have Vampyres in the first place. I'd be out of a job.

Abramelin Keldor

#14. This is the world of pretend. We are artists and we are servants of the stage, and I take both jobs very seriously. As artists, we work as a collective - all for one and one for all. As servants, we work for thos who venture out alone, otherwise known as performers.

Rebecca Stead

#15. All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn't are not easy to specify

Erving Goffman

#16. Being a background singer is one thing, but being on stage as the star is something else again. When you walk out there with all those people staring at you, it's like you're naked to the world. And I hate being criticized.

Brenda Russell

#17. This world is a peaceful stage where we are all villains of this drama and trees are the heroes.

Debasish Mridha

#18. The aim of the Revolution is, so far as the interests of China herself are concerned, the restoration of her original frontiers and, in regard to the rest of the world, a gradual advance of all nations from the stage of equality to that of an ideal unity.

Chiang Kai-shek

#19. To the prophetic mind all history is and will continue to be a prelude. The prophetic type will steadfastly refuse to see the world as a museum; it will insist that here is a stage set for a drama that perpetually begins.

H.G.Wells

#20. The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

Ma Jian

#21. You see, Evey, all the world's a stage. And everything else ...
... is vaudeville.

Alan Moore

#22. All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.

Gagan Narang

#23. All I've done is put into words what all of us are about. We're now at the archetypal stage of being ready to move from a material to a transcendent world view of culture. I'm only articulating what dwells in the consciousness of a good part of the masses now. That's why the response.

James Redfield

#24. If all the world's a stage, then it's missing a few planks.

John Fogarty

#25. The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.

Gary Lineker

#26. If anybody is so mad at Vladimir Putin, you know what they could do? They could advocate for a gas tax. He gets all his leverage from selling gas and oil. If we had a gas tax that made that less palatable, he would be less of a player on the world stage.

Bill Maher

#27. All the world's a stage," is a metaphor comparing the whole world to a theater stage.

Stephen Davis