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
games chess diplomacy
Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.
law wish desire
Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.
miracle flight stills
To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.
cheating humility doe
That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.
freedom cells austria
Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
faithful today tomorrow
How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.
ideas essence able
To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.
baby morality tendencies
Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.
sex excess surrender
What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!
communication eye dumb
The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.
writing criticism critics
Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.
knows
A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.
communication italian august
Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.
women able talent
The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.