A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. – Karl Kraus
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. – Karl Kraus
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. – Karl Kraus
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. – Karl Kraus
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. – Karl Kraus
The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers