Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
"Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers."
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
"The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered."
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
(Related: Man, Poor, Poverty, Wishes)
"What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible."
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
(Related: Beauty)
"We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for."
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
(Related: Care, Opinion)
"To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible."
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
(Related: Content)
"Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little."
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
"Conquer, but don't triumph."
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
(Related: Day, Right)
"Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one."
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
(Related: Old, Proof)
"He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated."
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
(Related: Freedom, Will)
"Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them."
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
(Related: Children, Faults, Parents)
"Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right."
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
(Related: People, Principles, Right)
"If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty."
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
(Related: People, Idea, Will)
"Privilege is the greatest enemy of right."
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
(Related: Enemy, Privilege, Right)
"Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate."
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
(Related: Experience, Fate)
"None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones."
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
(Related: Experience, Gain, Old)
"In youth we learn; in age we understand."
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
(Related: Age, Youth)
"Nobody knows enough, but many know too much."
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
"So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date."
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
(Related: Fashion)
"Imaginary evils are incurable."
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
"Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good."
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
(Related: Evil, Name, World)