Ugo Betti
Ugo Betti
Ugo Bettiwas an Italian judge, better known as an author, who is considered by many the greatest Italian playwright next to Pirandello...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth4 February 1892
CountryItaly
running ideas long
Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.
carpe-diem giving want
Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.
bullying unjust satisfaction
We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that.
honest burial
Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.
firsts accepted duty
Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.
fear feels behinds
Behind everything we feel, there is always a sense of fear.
people needs difficult
It so difficult to know what the people we love really need.
errors justice world
Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.
hate believe play
We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate each other--but then--it isn't true. It isn't true, we don't care at all!
memories distance erode
Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
sincerity spontaneity conventions
The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.
scary free-will bits
This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.
marriage men long
A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.
justice innocent responsible
It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.