Ugo Quotes & Sayings

There is no forgiveness in nature. — Ugo Betti

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned. — Ugo Betti

Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character. — Ugo Betti

It so difficult to know what the people we love really need. — Ugo Betti

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life ... just one. Our life. We have nothing else. — Ugo Betti

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame. — Ugo Betti

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. — Ugo Betti

'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else. — Ugo Betti

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

It is most difficult to acquire the, how shall I say? the 'depth' of a subject in composition in silhouette. — Ugo Mochi

The Duce told me that he foresaw the possibility of a conflict between Germany and Russia. He said that we could not stay out of this because it involved the struggle against communism. It was, therefore, necessary to make arrangements for the bringing together between Ljubljana and Zagreb of a motorized division, of an armored division, and of the grenadier division. — Ugo Cavallero

For years I study. I look long at olive trees, all gray and silver, and watch the sunlight. Ah, yes, I am ver' lazy, but I see after I look long that it is perspective that give it this quality. Perspective, and absolute faith to the subject. — Ugo Mochi

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! — Ugo Betti

We always looked forward to playing Aston Villa to hear him mangle Ugo Ehiogu's name. "Make sure you pick up Ehugu, Ehogy, whatever his name is." — Gary Neville

Killing time is the chief end of our society. — Ugo Betti

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. — Ugo Betti

To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises. — Ugo Betti

The present day Grimaldi Group traces its corporate lineage to a shipping company founded in 1947 by five brothers, Guido, Luigi, Mario, Aldo, and Ugo. Grimaldi began with a single Liberty class ship, the standard cargo ship used by the US fleet during World War II. In 1990, this entity split into two, with brothers Mario and Aldo creating Grimaldi Genova, a cruise ship company, and leaving Guido to expand Grimaldi Group into a global logistics operation. — Anonymous

Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid. — Ugo Betti

Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions. — Ugo Betti

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. — Ugo Betti

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it. — Ugo Betti

When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other. — Ugo Betti

You cannot do silhouettes in fantasy. Ah, no, you must be faithful. It is, the art, a, what you call, paradox. It is always that you must be simple, and then, if you are simple, you will stimulate the imagination of the observer. — Ugo Mochi

Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted. — Ugo Betti

A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison. — Ugo Betti

The assault on Malta will cost us many casualties ... but ... I consider it absolutely essential for the future development of the war. If we take Malta, Libya will be safe. — Ugo Cavallero

Behind everything we feel, there is always a sense of fear. — Ugo Betti

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

We would have to make clear to our German ally our disagreement on three points: treatment of the occupied countries, excesses towards the Jews, and relations with the Papacy. One ought to try to create a true European federation respectful of each nationality. — Ugo Cavallero

I've been in contact with Marshal Badoglio. We agree that Italy must be saved from the abyss toward which Fascism is driving her. If we depose Mussolini, however, the new government should do nothing drastic to upset Hitler until we can secretly negotiate an armistice with the Allies. — Ugo Cavallero

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

A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor. — Ugo Betti

The safari was amazing, to actually see the elephants and the Lions up close and then right at the end to actually get in the cage with the Lion was one of the best moments of the tour. — Ugo Monye

[M]y sensitivity was unfortunately even more monstrous than my grotesqueness. Yes, my grotesqueness; I possess the courage to judge myself without pity, and to call things by their proper names. If only you knew... how I hate my own self, how much I hate my ugliness, yet never so much as I detest my heart. — Iginio Ugo Tarchetti

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

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely. — Ugo Betti

Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace. — Ugo Betti

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on. — Ugo Betti

I use a special tool. I make it myself; very sharp steel point and a handle like a pencil. For me it is a pencil. Maybe I have a special talent, a feeling you might say that lets me control it, to express my ideas as though I were sketching black on white. — Ugo Mochi

(UGO, about Crank) I see the addiction to video games because you want to win them and it's just hard enough so you'd want to keep playing it over and over to try to figure it out. I definitely feel the movie is like a game at times but I'm not a huge videogame lover. — Amy Smart

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it. — Ugo Betti

Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever. — Ugo Betti

Forgetting! It is a form of suicide, a renunciation of the only good the we truly and ineluctably possess: the past. For if joys alone were forgotten, perhaps oblivion would be justly desired. But we are proud and jealous of our sorrows, we love them, we want to remember them. It is they that comprise the crown of life. — Iginio Ugo Tarchetti

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead. — Ugo Betti

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all. — Ugo Betti

I'm as happy as I can be-but I have been happier. — Ugo Ehiogu

One must have a thorough knowledge of anatomy and a good perception of depth for silhouette work. Otherwise they resemble those childish picture cards, snipped out by some fool who doesn't know what he is trying to do. — Ugo Mochi

Be careful who you make memories with. Those things can last a lifetime. — Ugo Eze

Fascist intellectuals, such as Ugo Spirito, made the round of conferences preaching the virtues of postcapitalism fascism and in fact tried to nudge the structure in a 'leftist' direction by calling for more collective control and even corporative ownership of the economy. Mussolini looked abroad to find that Franklin Roosevelt was merely seeking to emulate Italy's innovations. — Charles S. Maier

Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors. — Ugo Betti

The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention. — Ugo Betti

I am very much afraid that the loss of Cyrenaica will have serious political consequences for the Duce. — Ugo Cavallero