Quotations From FRANZ GRILLPARZER

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• 31.

  Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.

  Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author. Phaon, in Sappho, act 2, sc. 5 (1819).
  
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• 32.

  Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.

  Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author. "On the Decree Prohibiting Women to Sing in Church," Poems (1827).
  
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• 33.

  Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.

  Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author. Libussa, in Libussa, act 1 (1872).
• 34.

  Who could deny that our Austria is richer than any other country? As the saying goes: "We have money like manure."

  Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author. "Paper Money," Poems (1851).
  
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• 35.

  Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.

  Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author. "Literature of the Mob," Poems (1835).
• 36.

  Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.

  Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author. "Into the Album of Two Adorable Cousins in Villach," Poems (1819).
  
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• 37.

  In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.

  Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author. Notebooks and Diaries (1838).
• 38.

  Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.

  Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author. Notebooks and Diaries (1808-1810).
• 39.

  You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

  Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author. Poems (1833).
  
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• 40.

  The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.

  Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author. Poems (1859).
  
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