Franz Kafka Quotes

At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived hand to mouth, and the rich would live like princes - better than the rich had ever lived, except that their lives would constantly be in danger from the hungry predatory poor. All the technology would serve the rich, but they would need it for their own protection and to assure their continued prosperity.

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

I don’t drink anymore - just the same amount.

I ain't never preyed on the weak. I ain't never gone and picked on a guy that I knew I could beat up, even as a kid. People wanna make me seem like I'm [that] type of guy.

If Plato is a fine red wine, then Aristotle is a dry martini.

I used to drink a lot of lager when I was younger, but I'm more of a wine drinker now, I guess. I feel daunted looking at full pints.

Specifically, the growing threat that sexual predators pose to our Nation's children and their families represents an area where our criminal justice system has failed the American people.

I'd get very nervous and uncomfortable in social situations and the only way I could feel at all normal was, well, to drink my guts out.

If you have to dry the dishes (Such an awful boring chore) If you have to dry the dishes ('Stead of going to the store) If you have to dry the dishes And you drop one on the floor Maybe they won't let you Dry the dishes anymore

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.

Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.

Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again.

Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.

Get me a skinny frappuccino. I have no idea what that is - I would like to think you would be presented with a tiny Italian man.

New Yorkers are predatory about real estate. When they sense softening, they move in for the kill.

Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like it's all perfectly normal in the morning.

If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.

When Anderson walks into a room, you can hear a rat pissing on cotton.

Actually, depravity can be terribly boring if you don't smoke or drink.

Humanity from the first has had its vultures and sharks, and representatives of the fraternity who prey upon mankind may be expected no less in America than elsewhere. That this virulence breaks out most readily and commonly against colored persons in this country, is due of course to the fact that they are, generally speaking, weak and can be imposed upon with impunity. Bullies are always cowards at heart.

There are sordid souls that eat and drink and breed and die, and imagine they have lived.

Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.

I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous.