When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet’s task to turn it into an audience. — Franz Grillparzer
To test a modest man’s modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. — Franz Grillparzer
To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet. — Franz Grillparzer
There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: least of all the mother of your son. — Franz Grillparzer
The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas. — Franz Grillparzer
If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short. — Franz Grillparzer
Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself. — Franz Grillparzer
I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman’s candid brow. — Franz Grillparzer
Drink and be thankful to the host! what seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it. — Franz Grillparzer
Before passing different laws for different people, I’d relinquish myself unto you as your slave. — Franz Grillparzer