To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.

Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.

No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.