Karl Kraus
Karl Kraus
Karl Krauswas an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He directed his satire at the press, German culture, and German and Austrian politics. The Austrian author Stefan Zweig once called Kraus "the master of venomous ridicule"...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth28 April 1874
CountryAustria
erotic curiosity meals
Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.
legs men news people reports shot stand theirs walk
News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. ClichTs walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
forbidden insult love mechanical philosophy sexes sin subject time
Love between sexes is a sin in theology, a forbidden intercourse in jurisprudence, a mechanical insult in medicine, and a subject philosophy has no time for.
funny war lying
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
artist seized
The agitator seizes the world. The artist is seized by it.
repressed
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
passion giving emotion
Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.
two littles pages
There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.
men sick healthy
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.
education men vests
I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.
marriage animal law
Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.
arrows opponents fit
I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.
hair intelligence sake
Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.
nature technology development
The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.