Franz Grillparzer
Franz Grillparzer
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzerwas an Austrian writer who is chiefly known for his dramas. He also wrote the oration for Ludwig van Beethoven's funeral...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth15 January 1791
CountryAustria
life time moving
I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
life death men
Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
history historical attention
Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.
rights two bent
Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.
stupidity house acres
Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
mind piety fermentation
Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
drama character degrees
It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.
smart people intelligence
He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
rights people justice
Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights, but you'll remain Jews nonetheless.
respect squares justice
The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
food healthy waste
Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.
children hypocrisy hard-life
A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.
art essence understanding
The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
skills two use
Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.