Quotes Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejo...

Conquer, but don't triumph....

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day....

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some ye...

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they ca...

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and n...

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty....

Imaginary evils are incurable....

In youth we learn; in age we understand....

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could b...

Nobody knows enough, but many know too much....

None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't ...

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experien...

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults ...

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right....

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date....

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man...

Those who understand only what can be explained understand v...

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, ...

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we...

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the...

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the...

We don't believe in rheumatism or true love until we have be...

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible....

Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are bot...