Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Quote by Karl Kraus

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I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I...

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I...

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them...

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them...

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does...

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does...

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were...

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were...

There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for...

There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for...

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation...

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation...

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.

A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with...

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with...

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar...

Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar...

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why...

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why...