269 Quotes by Franz Grillparzer

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.

Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.

Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.

Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.

Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!

Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.