Top 265 Quotes & Sayings by Karl Kraus - Page 5

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Last updated on April 15, 2025.

I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

Karl Kraus

Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

Karl Kraus

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

Karl Kraus

"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."

Karl Kraus

A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.

Karl Kraus

News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.

Karl Kraus

A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

Karl Kraus

Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.

Karl Kraus

A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time

Karl Kraus

What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!

Karl Kraus

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.

Karl Kraus

One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.

Karl Kraus

If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.

Karl Kraus

An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.

Karl Kraus

Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

Karl Kraus

When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.

Karl Kraus

I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.

Karl Kraus

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

Karl Kraus

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

Karl Kraus

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.

Karl Kraus

Humanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears.

Karl Kraus

What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beautiful?

Karl Kraus

Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.

Karl Kraus

Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.

Karl Kraus

Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.

Karl Kraus

Top 265 Quotes & Sayings by Karl Kraus - Page 5

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