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
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.
men sick healthy
A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.
education men vests
I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.
men premature ideals
The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man.
men light giving
A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit.
men beast behave
When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.
men two people
News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
art character men
This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
men space firsts
Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.
heart men desire
A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
mental-illness illness cures
Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure
men literature equal
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
men sexuality
A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.
hate men might
Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.