When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Beauty satisfies the senses completely and at the same time uplifts the soul. That which gratifies the senses is pleasant, and that… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share
The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share
It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share
Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share
Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share
The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share
I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share
Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share
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… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share
The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turnedinto a church lady. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share
Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share
Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share
