Franz Grillparzer Quotes
Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.
When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones.
Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights, but you'll remain Jews nonetheless.
North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.
I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.
Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.
They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.
Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.
A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.
Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.
An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you standtoo low.
When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.
Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.
It's actually the spirit helping the spirit; it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is the--public.
Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.
