Franz Grillparzer Quotes - Page 8

Quotes about:

• You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Stupid, Silly, Experts

  9 Copy quote

• Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Mirrors, Looks, Literature

  7 Copy quote

• At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Men, Fire, Flames

  4 Copy quote

• This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Boys, Ideas, Arrogance

  8 Copy quote

• I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Looks, Candid, Stamps

  102 Copy quote

• If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Thinking, Hair, Sky

  4 Copy quote

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

  Franz Grillparzer

  Divine Power, Fame, Empty

  "Sappho". Play by Franz Grillparzer. Act 1 Scene 5, 1818.

  4 Copy quote

• The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Poetry, Poetic, Poet

  4 Copy quote

• The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Simple, Religion, Reason

  4 Copy quote

• Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Sin, Chastity, Sinning

  4 Copy quote

• I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Women, Rigidity, Disgusting

  7 Copy quote

• The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Sky, People, Shining

  5 Copy quote

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

  Franz Grillparzer

  Loneliness, Excellence, Property

  5 Copy quote

• 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.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Food, Giving, Office

  4 Copy quote

• When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Nature, Science, Hermeneutics

  4 Copy quote

• Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Marriage, Men, House

  6 Copy quote

• The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Marriage, Queens, Husband

  4 Copy quote

• It's actually the spirit helping the spirit; it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Healing, Doctors, Medicine

  4 Copy quote

• Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Doe, Originality, Opinion

  4 Copy quote

• Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Common Sense, Natural, Wit

  4 Copy quote

• Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Queens, Power, Honey

  8 Copy quote

• 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.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Strength, Majesty, Clamor

  4 Copy quote

• Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Moving, Greatness

  5 Copy quote

• 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.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Grieving, Needs, Austria

  4 Copy quote

• In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.

  Franz Grillparzer

  World, Fossils, Bones

  5 Copy quote

Page 8 of 9

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin