Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotations | Page 2

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.

An opinion may be controverted; a prejudice, never.

There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.

Conquer, but don't triumph.

Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.

Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.

Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.

People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.