269 Quotes by Franz Grillparzer

Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.

Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.

The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.

Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?

I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.

A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman’s love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.

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

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.