They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves… — 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
A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice, unnoticed amidst the reveling crowds. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a… — 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
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
