Author: Franz Grillparzer

Quotes

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

- Franz Grillparzer

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

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

- 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

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

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

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

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

- 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

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