269 Quotes by Franz Grillparzer

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?

Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.

In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.

They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.

Every mistake has three stages: first, it is made, second, it is not admitted, and third, its claimed it didnt make any difference anyway.

Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.

Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.

Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule.