People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
Franz GrillparzerDrive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
Franz GrillparzerThey are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.
Franz GrillparzerWhy do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.
Franz Grillparzer