Franz Grillparzer Quotes & Sayings
28 most famous Franz Grillparzer quotes and sayings (poet). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.”
“You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.”
“Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.”
“Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.”
“No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.”
“There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.”
“I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.”
“Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.”
“Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.”
“To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.”
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