333 Quotes by Karl Kraus

Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being interviewed by them, break into recently abandoned royal castles so that they can report, "We got there first!" It would be far less shameful to be paid for committing atrocities than for fabricating them.

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.

A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

The real truths are those that can be invented.

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought that those who have brought themselves to believe in dogmas merit the true recognition owing a heroic deed.