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"What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy."


"A bachelor always feels himself defrauded, when he knows or suspects that any woman of his acquaintance has given herself away."


"Why? Do you plan to make out with her?"His teeth ground with so much force he feared they would soon be nothing but a fond memory. "I plan to question her.""Ah. So that's what the kids are calling it these days. Well, have fun." with that, a still-grinning Paris strolled from the room."


"Envy: Instead of focusing on your own goals, your goal becomes throwing off the rails other people's goals and at the end of the day you gain nothing but a mischievous satisfaction that you have destroyed someone's dream."


"Jealousy appears to be a redoubtable pitfall for love, on the toll road of self-absorption and unshareability. When love has to remain cloistered and ostentatiously exclusionary, envy may show its pernicious power, cause wounding harms and unchain emotional twisters. ['Why has Shé got stars in the sky?']"
Explore more quotes by Karl Kraus

"It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new."

"To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all."

"Justice is a whore that won't let herself be stiffed, and collects the wages of shame even from the poor."

"I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear."
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