Quotes by Marie Ebner-Eschenbach

• We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
• Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.
• 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.
• What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
• We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
• To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.
• Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.
• Conquer, but don't triumph.
• Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
• Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.
• Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
• Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
• If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
• Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.
• Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
• None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.
• In youth we learn; in age we understand.
• Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.
• So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
• Imaginary evils are incurable.
• Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.