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Oscar Wilde 812
Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes

“The world's a stage on which all parts are played.”
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.”
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.”
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”
Genette, Gérard. 1997. Immanence and Transcendence, translated by G. M. Goshgarian. p. 102
Undated

Source: Advice to Young Musicians

In Kavitavali quoted in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 72