333 Quotes by Karl Kraus

Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.

A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.