Quote

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

Karl Kraus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Translator
Writer
Jicin
Attracts
Bark
Thieves
Jealousy
Dog

More quotes by Karl Kraus

Image
Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
Karl Kraus
Image
Most people only do what they are asked to do success comes to those who do a little more.
Karl Kraus
Image
The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.
Karl Kraus
Image
My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
Karl Kraus
Image
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
Karl Kraus
Image
There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.
Karl Kraus
Image
The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.
Karl Kraus
Image
When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.
Karl Kraus
Image
Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.
Karl Kraus
Image
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
Karl Kraus
Image
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Karl Kraus
Image
A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.
Karl Kraus
Image
Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
Karl Kraus
Image
It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper.
Karl Kraus
Image
A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.
Karl Kraus
Image
Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
Karl Kraus
Image
There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.
Karl Kraus
Image
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
Karl Kraus
Image
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
Karl Kraus
Image
Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
Karl Kraus