333 Quotes by Karl Kraus

That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.

A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit.

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.

Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.

If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.