Best 122 quotes of Marie Von Ebner-eschenbach on MyQuotes

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

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

A man with lofty ideas is an uncomfortable neighbor.

An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.

An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.

As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.

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

Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair.

Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality.

Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.

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

Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.

Conquer, but don't triumph.

Conquer but never triumph.

Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.

Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.

Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.

Do not fear the ones who argue, but rather those who are evasive.

Enthusiasm does not always speak for those who arouse it, but always for those who experience it.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.

Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor.

Genius points the way, talent takes it.

Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom.

Hatred is a prolific vice; envy, a barren vice.

Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.

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

He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.

He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.

However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain.

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.

If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one's own power.

If there is a believe that is capable to move mountains it is the believe in our own strength.

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

Imaginary evils are incurable.

Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self.

In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

In this world, all power rests upon force.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience.

It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.

It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.

Many think that when they have confessed a fault there is no need of correcting it.

Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.

Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.