Franz Grillparzer

It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

— Franz Grillparzer

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only…

— Franz Grillparzer

As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand…

— Franz Grillparzer

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the…

— Franz Grillparzer

Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

— Franz Grillparzer

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

— Franz Grillparzer

The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!

— Franz Grillparzer

The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.

— Franz Grillparzer

Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.

— Franz Grillparzer

Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights,…

— Franz Grillparzer

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

— Franz Grillparzer

Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship…

— Franz Grillparzer

I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

— Franz Grillparzer

Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.

— Franz Grillparzer

Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand…

— Franz Grillparzer

This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when…

— Franz Grillparzer

Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could…

— Franz Grillparzer

They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves…

— Franz Grillparzer

Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.

— Franz Grillparzer

Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

— Franz Grillparzer

Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.

— Franz Grillparzer

A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that…

— Franz Grillparzer

A love that dies has never lived.

— Franz Grillparzer

A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.

— Franz Grillparzer

Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

— Franz Grillparzer