William Shakespeare Quotes About Politicians

• A politician... one that would circumvent God.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Politics, Politician

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [84]

• Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Glasses, Society

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 6, l. [175]

• That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?

  William Shakespeare

  Skulls, Political, Cain

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.705, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• 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

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