Man is a make-believe animal — he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
— William Hazlitt
Philosophy
If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.
— William Shakespeare
Literature
Like a dull actor now,Even to a full disgrace.
— William Shakespeare
Failure
Out, out, brief candle!it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
— William Shakespeare
Life
As in a theatre, the eyes of men,Thinking his prattle to be tedious.
— William Shakespeare
Literature
I can counterfeit the deep tragedian;Intending deep suspicion.
— William Shakespeare
Literature
A beggarly account of empty boxes.
— William Shakespeare
Literature
And, like a strutting player, whose conceit'Twixt his stretch'd footing and the scaffoldage.
— William Shakespeare
Literature
Good, my lord, will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them be well used; for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time: after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
— William Shakespeare
Literature