Luigi Pirandello citáty
Luigi Pirandello
Dátum narodenia: 28. jún 1867
Dátum úmrtia: 10. december 1936
Luigi Pirandello bol taliansky spisovateľ a dramatik. Nositeľ Nobelovej ceny za literatúru .
Citáty Luigi Pirandello
„Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.“
— Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
Zdroj: Six Characters in Search of an Author
„Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.“
Zdroj: Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays
„It is so. When YOU think so“
Title of play (1916); also translated as It Is So, If You Think It Is.
Varianta: So It Is (If You Think So)
„If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.“
— Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
Zdroj: Six Characters in Search of an Author
„Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!“
— Luigi Pirandello, Henry IV
Henry IV (1922), trans. Edward Storer http://encarta.msn.com/quote_561557863/Diplomacy_Woe_to_him_who_doesn't_know_how_to_wear_his.html
„Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something which you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy.“
The Pleasure of Honesty (1917), trans. William Murray http://encarta.msn.com/quote_561560170/Behavior_Anyone_can_be_heroic_from_time_to_time_but_a.html