What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.
Franz GrillparzerThe sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.
Franz GrillparzerChristianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.
Franz GrillparzerThe prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.
Franz Grillparzer