Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes - Page 4

An opinion may be controverted; a prejudice, never.

Pity is love in undress.

Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything.

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.

Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name.

Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

We are not always even what we are most.

To be young is delightful; to be old is comfortable.

Most imitators attempt the inimitable.

Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.

A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.

We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?

Nothing is so irretrievably missed as an opportunity we encounter every day.

n every exalted joy, there mingles a sense of gratitude.

A defeat borne with pride is also a victory.

The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.

Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.

All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

Blessed is trust, for it blesses both those who have it to give and those who receive it.

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.