Quote

I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

Franz Grillparzer

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Disgust
Proceed
Disgusting
Woman
Women
Even
Harshness
Would
Rigidity
Nonetheless

More quotes by Franz Grillparzer

Image
How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Servants honor their master by their service.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
Franz Grillparzer
Image
Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
Franz Grillparzer