Quote

The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

Ugo Betti

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ugo Betti
Age: 61 †
Born: 1892
Born: February 4
Died: 1953
Died: June 6
Judge
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Years
Meetings
Way
Friend
Always
Upon
Look
Firsts
Looks
First
Meeting
Many
Temptation

More quotes by Ugo Betti

Image
We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.
Ugo Betti
Image
Killing time is the chief end of our society.
Ugo Betti
Image
Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?
Ugo Betti
Image
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.
Ugo Betti
Image
When I say I, I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.
Ugo Betti
Image
Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.
Ugo Betti
Image
To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.
Ugo Betti
Image
Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
Ugo Betti
Image
Nature is honest, we aren't we embalm our dead.
Ugo Betti
Image
A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.
Ugo Betti
Image
I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
Ugo Betti
Image
If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.
Ugo Betti
Image
Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.
Ugo Betti
Image
Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
Ugo Betti
Image
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Ugo Betti
Image
When you put a man and a woman together, there are some things they simply have to do. They embrace, they warm each other. All the rest is dead and empty.
Ugo Betti
Image
It so difficult to know what the people we love really need.
Ugo Betti
Image
Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.
Ugo Betti
Image
It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.
Ugo Betti
Image
The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.
Ugo Betti