Karl Kraus: Citáty v angličtine (page 4)

Karl Kraus bol český dramatik a publicista. Citáty v angličtine.
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“Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“Everyone is stopped and waiting, maitre d's, hansom cab drivers and governments. Everyone's waiting for the end. Let's hope the apocalypse is pleasant, Your Highness.”

1899, quoted in Franz Hare, Jahrhundertwende 1900: Untergangsstimmung und Fortschrittsglauben, Stuttgart, 1998, p. 190

“The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.”

“In these great times,” Harry Zohn, trans., In These Great Times (Montreal: 1976), pp. 73-74

“I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“Family life is an encroachment on private life.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)