269 Quotes by Franz Grillparzer

What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters.

The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!

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

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.

What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.

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

Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.

A love that dies has never lived.