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Quotes from Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths — Karl Kraus

1874–1936 Austria

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Nestroy's words ought to apply to an artist and an idea: "I have made a prisoner, and he won't let go of me!"

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

I am not for women but against men.

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

I no longer have collaborators. I used to be envious of them. They repel those readers whom I want to lose myself.

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

What is my love? That I amalgamate the bad features of a woman into a good picture. And my hatred? That I see the bad features in the picture of a bad man.

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

When the word "peace" was uttered for the first time, there was panic at the stock exchange. They screamed in pain: "We've been earning! Leave us the war! We've earned the war!"

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

War is at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that the other fellow isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

To be human is erroneous.

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

You don't even live once.

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Karl Kraus (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.