269 Quotes by Franz Grillparzer

Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

Endlich, wie denn in dieser Welt jedes noch so hartnäckige Stehenbleiben doch nur ein unvermerktes Weiterrücken ist, erscheint auch diesem Status quo ein Hoffnungsstrahl.

Las cadenas de la esclavitud sólo atan las manos: es la mente la que hace al hombre libre o esclavo

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

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

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.