“What is the Ninth Symphony compared to a Tin Pan Alley hit played on a hurdy-gurdy and a memory?”
Karl Kraus Sprüche und Widersprüche
Sprüche und Widersprüche (Dicta and Contradictions)
Karl Kraus: Citáty v angličtine
Karl Kraus bol český dramatik a publicista. Citáty v angličtine.Karl Kraus: 167 citátov44 Páči sa
“A man's jealousy is a social institution, a woman's prostitution an instinct.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
Variant translation: The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he.
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time writing essays.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.”
Beim Wort genommen (1955); as translated by Harry Zohn
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)