Karl Kraus
Karl Kraus
Karl Krauswas an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He directed his satire at the press, German culture, and German and Austrian politics. The Austrian author Stefan Zweig once called Kraus "the master of venomous ridicule"...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth28 April 1874
CountryAustria
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There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.
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A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.
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A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.
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I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.
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A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.
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The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.
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To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.
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That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.
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To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.
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Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.
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Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.
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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.
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Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.
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Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.