The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
en
“Le monde est un théâtre, mais la pièce est mal distribuée.”
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
Original
The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
Oscar Wilde 78
poète irlandais 1854–1900Citations similaires
“Avez-vous la monnaie de ma pièce? Personne au monde ne peut avoir la monnaie de ma pièce.”
Deuil pour deuil, 1924
If you have to do something, write me a funny AIDS play. Sure you can. It's the biggest joke played on us since sex itself - and with the longest punch line.
en
Untold Decades: Seven Comedies of Gay Romance (1988)
Diogène Laërce, Vies, doctrines et sentences des philosophes illustres
To read a novel or see a play was to drink life through a straw — to smoke it through a filter-tip. If we were not afraid of blackening our teeth or riddling our lungs with cancer — if we were a dauntless race of men with strong digestions — we would be able to devour life without the aid of these over-civilized devices.
en
The Naked Civil Servant (Fonctionnaire du nu)
“Nous voulons de la vie au théâtre et du théâtre dans la vie.”
Journal, 1887-1910