Quote

Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.

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
Women
Cosmetics
Cosmos
Woman
Science

More quotes by Karl Kraus

Image
A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.
Karl Kraus
Image
Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.
Karl Kraus
Image
A weak man has doubts before a decision a strong man has them afterwards.
Karl Kraus
Image
A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
Karl Kraus
Image
Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.
Karl Kraus
Image
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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
A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.
Karl Kraus
Image
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.
Karl Kraus
Image
So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.
Karl Kraus
Image
Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.
Karl Kraus
Image
The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
Karl Kraus
Image
Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
Karl Kraus
Image
Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
Karl Kraus
Image
News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
Karl Kraus
Image
I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.
Karl Kraus
Image
Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
Karl Kraus
Image
Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.
Karl Kraus
Image
The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.
Karl Kraus
Image
The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.
Karl Kraus