Franz Grillparzer Quotations

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.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.

Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.

The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.

Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.

It's actually the spirit helping the spirit; it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.

Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.

It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.