Quotes by Franz Grillparzer
Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers pr...
The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena exte...
The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could i...
Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger.
Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free—but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.
Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity...
To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.
Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simple and the natu...
Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.
Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.
"What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments...
The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man....
Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you b...
It is good insofar as it is not evil.
The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule.
Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discards it with indi...
Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man rem...
Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
