Author: Franz Grillparzer

Quotes

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

- Franz Grillparzer

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

- Franz Grillparzer

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

- Franz Grillparzer

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

- Franz Grillparzer

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

- Franz Grillparzer

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

- Franz Grillparzer

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

- Franz Grillparzer

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

- Franz Grillparzer

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

- Franz Grillparzer

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