269 Quotes by Franz Grillparzer

How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.

Love! Hate! Is there no third?

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.

I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.

Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.