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William Shakespeare Quotes about Politics

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A politician... one that would circumvent God.

A politician... one that would circumvent God.

William Shakespeare
God, Politics, Politician
'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [84]

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

William Shakespeare
Children, Land, Politics
1592-3 Third Citizen. Richard III, act 2, sc.3, l.11.

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

William Shakespeare
Law, Politics, Rage
William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.126, Cambridge University Press

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

William Shakespeare
Soul, Politics, Baffled
1595 Mowbray to Richard. Richard II, act1, sc.1, l.170-1.

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

William Shakespeare
Athens, Politics, Forests
William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, William Watkiss Lloyd, John Thompson, Thomas Stothard (1856). “Titus Andronicus. Romeo and Juliet. Timon of Athens. Julius Caesar”, p.354

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

William Shakespeare
Trying, Politics, Taste
William Shakespeare, Libby Appel, Michael Flachmann (1986). “Shakespeare's Women: A Playscript for Performance and Analysis”, p.65, SIU Press

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, Bolingbroke.

William Shakespeare
Looks, Politics, Politician
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, William Richardson (1806). “King Henry IV, part 1. King Richard II”, p.189

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

William Shakespeare
Long, Design, Politics
William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.142, Cambridge University Press

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

William Shakespeare
Weed, Politics, Pluck
William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (1998). “Richard II”, p.45, Oxford University Press, USA

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

William Shakespeare
Intelligence, Politics, Fool
William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius”, p.54

Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?

William Shakespeare
Greatness, Politics
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [257]

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

William Shakespeare
Power, Age, Politics
William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1992). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.114, Cambridge University Press

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

William Shakespeare
Duplicity, Secret, Politics
William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.95, Cambridge University Press

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

William Shakespeare
Desire, Politics, Too Short
William Shakespeare (1842). “The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare: According to the Improved Text of Edmund Malone, Including the Latest Revisions, with a Life, Glossarial Notes, an Index, and One Hundred and Seventy Illustrations”, p.252

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