333 Quotes by Karl Kraus

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.

Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.

The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.

I am not for women but against men.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.