269 Quotes by Franz Grillparzer

It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.

Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights, but you'll remain Jews nonetheless.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.

A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.