269 Quotes by Franz Grillparzer

In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.

The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.

Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.