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Oscar Wilde812
Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
“The world's a stage on which all parts are played.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) English playwright and poet
A Game of Chess (1624), Act v. Sc. 1. Compare: "All the world ’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players", Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act ii. Sc. 7.; "The world ’s a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill", Thomas Heywood, Apology for Actors (1612).
“…badly, playing the Missouri Waltz, or something.”
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) American actress, model
On Harry S. Truman's piano playing
Private Screenings interview (2005)
“I take the world to be but as a stage,
Where net-maskt men do play their personage.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
Dialogue between Heraclitus and Democritus. Compare: "All the world ’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players", William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act ii. Scene 7.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“My music is not modern, it is merely badly played”
Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) Austrian-American composer
Genette, Gérard. 1997. Immanence and Transcendence, translated by G. M. Goshgarian. p. 102
Undated
Robert Schumann (1810–1856) German composer, aesthete and influential music critic
Source: Advice to Young Musicians
Sam Keen (1931) author, professor, and philosopher
Source: The Passionate Life (1983), pp. 135-136
Tulsidas (1532–1623) Hindu poet-saint
In Kavitavali quoted in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 72