“The world is a stage, but the play is badly written.”
“The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”
“Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.”
“You are prominent! Play your role on the world stage.”
“According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.”
“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano, A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.”