Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
Franz Grillparzer
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Self
Flaws
Many
Selfishness
Join
Corner
Flaw
Corners
Emerged
Hell
Conceit
Modern
Deepest
Age
Arrogance
More quotes by Franz Grillparzer
The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
Franz Grillparzer
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
Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
Franz Grillparzer
The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
Franz Grillparzer
If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
Franz Grillparzer
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
Franz Grillparzer
How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
Franz Grillparzer
Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
Franz Grillparzer
In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
Franz Grillparzer
Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
Franz Grillparzer
Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
Franz Grillparzer
Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
Franz Grillparzer
The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
Franz Grillparzer
Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
Franz Grillparzer
Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
Franz Grillparzer
What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
Franz Grillparzer
The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.
Franz Grillparzer
A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
Franz Grillparzer
The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
Franz Grillparzer
As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
Franz Grillparzer