Source: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (1985), p. 9
“Does nobody understand?”
Last words (January 1941)
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Irish novelist and poet 1882–1941Related quotes
“[watching a character's ridiculous idle animation] "Who—? Nobody—Nobody does that!"”
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Auguste Rodin
(1840–1917) French sculptor
Attributed to Auguste Rodin in: The Nation, Vol. 109 (1919), p. 6: Rodin means without reward.
1900s-1940s
“Nobody understands a prostitute better than a politician.”
Ron English
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“Why is it nobody understands me and everybody likes me?”
Albert Einstein
(1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
As quoted in New York Times article "The Einstein Theory of Living; At 65 he leads the simplest of lives — and grapples with the most complex thoughts." http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00713FA3A58157A93C0A81788D85F408485F9 (12 March 1944)
Variants:
Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me?
As quoted in The Dark Side of Shakespeare : An Elizabethan Courtier, Diplomat, Spymaster, & Epic Hero, p. 126 https://books.google.com/books?id=-5SxGKrTRUEC&pg=PA126 (2003) by W. Ron Hess
Everyone likes me, yet nobody understands me.
As quoted in "The culture of Einstein" at MSNBC (18 March 2005) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7406337/
1940s
“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”
Mark Twain
(1835–1910) American author and humorist
Notes on sourcing http://www.bartleby.com/73/1982.html
Twain did say:
: "There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger's admiration — and regret. The weather is always doing something there … In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours. ...
Yes, one of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it."
:* Speech at the dinner of New England Society in New York City (22 December 1876)
Misattributed
“But so secretive nobody can be
That someone does not notice finally.”
Canto XXII, stanza 39 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.”
George Orwell
(1903–1950) English author and journalist
From a review of Letters on India by Mulk Raj Anand, Tribune (19 March 1943)
Context: You and I both know that there can be no real solution of the Indian problem which does not also benefit Britain. Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does. It is so obvious, is it not, that the British worker as well as the Indian peasant stands to gain by the ending of capitalist exploitation, and that Indian independence is a lost cause if the Fascist nations are allowed to dominate the world.