Franz Grillparzer Quotes

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.

Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close together, it's a whole different world. You can lose perspective.

Maybe because she's smaller than me she might look taller.

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.

A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.

No, but you can see it from here.

It's always easy to judge from afar

I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.

In people's eyes I readPages of malice and sin.

Laurel could not see her face but only the back of her neck, the most vulnerable part of anybody, and she thought: Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?

The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.

I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.

We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.

Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.

Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only mistress—probably had never even begun to see into himself

Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?

The further you are from a problem, the smaller it gets.

It's hard to look at things that are too close.

The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- And that's the skies!

What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.

Going to a bar or pool hall doesn’t mean you’re a drunk, just like sitting in a henhouse doesn’t make you a chicken. It’s the same in the opposite setting. Sitting in a church building doesn’t make you a follower of Christ.

I’d like to. Problem is, I’m not stupid.” “You act stupid.” “Right. Thanks for that. For your information, there’s a difference between acting stupid and being stupid.” “It’s a fine line, but someone has to draw it.

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.