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
love eagles sight
How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
love death dying
A love that dies has never lived.
love men may
A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.
love wise women
Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
love slavery kind
Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.
love passion men
A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
love symbolism want
Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
love hate alternatives
Love! Hate! Is there no third?
love friendship flower
Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
claimed difference mistake mistakes three
Every mistake has three stages: first, it is made, second, it is not admitted, and third, its claimed it didnt make any difference anyway.
converts half oh wisdom
Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule.
speed slow-down bits
Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
grieving austria may
They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.
world fossils bones
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.