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
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!
believe want belief
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
believe wonderful surprise
To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.
control revolving taking turns wheel worse
There's nothing worse than taking something into your head: it turns into a revolving wheel that you can't control
describe man obsessed term
Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
absolutely confused mean
When I say I, I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.
fact point separate slightly
All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.
eyes given open
At a given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, for all eternity, what was there? Nothing.
The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
eye moments eternity
At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.
men ideas mad
'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
family thinking goes-on
I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
sister love-is doe
Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.
years old-friends temptation
The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.