269 Quotes by Franz Grillparzer

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.

It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.

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

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

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

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.

In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is the--public.