333 Quotes by Karl Kraus

A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time

One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.

A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.

How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.

A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.