Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow. — Franz Grillparzer Future Copy Share Image
Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills. — Franz Grillparzer Ability Copy Share Image
The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one. — Franz Grillparzer Danger Copy Share Image
The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas. — Franz Grillparzer Age Copy Share Image
Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy. — Franz Grillparzer Age Copy Share Image
The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already… — Franz Grillparzer Chinese Copy Share Image
What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the… — Franz Grillparzer Criticism Copy Share Image
The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician. — Franz Grillparzer Diplomats Copy Share Image
Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am. — Franz Grillparzer Austria 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,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the… — Franz Grillparzer Bees Copy Share Image
The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only… — Franz Grillparzer Abstraction Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big… — 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 Beautiful Copy Share Image
People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight. — Franz Grillparzer Blind Copy Share Image
Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother. — Franz Grillparzer Caution Copy Share Image
Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty. — Franz Grillparzer Coercion Copy Share Image
Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all. — Franz Grillparzer Emotion Copy Share Image
The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality. — Franz Grillparzer Bestiality Copy Share Image
Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened. — Franz Grillparzer Brave Copy Share Image
