269 Quotes by Franz Grillparzer

Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental—far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger

Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.

Never expect any recognition here--the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross.

Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.