Karl Kraus may refer to:
It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.
Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.
The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.
Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.
I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.
A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.
To be human is erroneous.
Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.
Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.
Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.
Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.
Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.
Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.