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
writing enough historian
What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.
freedom cells austria
Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
faithful today tomorrow
How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.
ideas people opinion
It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.
neighbor love-thy-neighbor thyself
Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.
powerful lying volcanoes
How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.
perfect-one perfect defects
To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.
writing thinking waiting
My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness.
crime penalties commit
Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
reading writing may
To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.
conversation dialogue monologues
I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.
views agreement share
Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.
palpitation blushing havens
Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.
rabbits wanted psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.