Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Baroness Marie von Ebner-Eschenbachwas an Austrian writer. Noted for her excellent psychological novels, she is regarded—together with Ferdinand von Saar—as one of the most important German-language writers of the latter portion of the 19th century...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth13 September 1830
CountryAustria
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach quotes about
clever people contradiction
People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction
sympathy self people
The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.
ideas people twenties
If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
people looks faults
Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.
communication two people
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
people married enough
It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.
believe practice people
Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.
heart people mind
"People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts.
patience waiting
We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.
kindness names doe
Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name.
Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.
experience none
None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.
To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.
self kind indifference
Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self.