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
life family privacy
Family life is an encroachment on private life.
life light order
What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.
life order world
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
life politician relation
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
effort causes life-is
Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
life beautiful writing
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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.
artist seized
The agitator seizes the world. The artist is seized by it.
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.
repressed
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
action hard surprised translate
You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought
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.