333 Quotes by Karl Kraus

News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.

The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one.

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.