Quotes of Franz Grillparzer - somelinesforyou

“ Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ Prose talks and poetry sings. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ The cradle of the future is the grave of the past. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ Doubt breeds doubt. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. ”

- Franz Grillparzer
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