269 Quotes by Franz Grillparzer

At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.

Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you but your own self; provided you remain true to it.

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.

The real genres: good and bad.

The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.