Karl Kraus: Woman

Karl Kraus was Czech playwright and publicist. Explore interesting quotes on woman.

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“Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“Nothing is more unfathomable than a woman's superficiality.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“The woman takes one for all, and the man all for one.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“A woman is, occasionally, quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation. It takes an abundance of imagination, to be sure.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“What is my love? That I amalgamate the bad features of a woman into a good picture. And my hatred? That I see the bad features in the picture of a bad man.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“To divide people into sadists and masochists is almost as foolish as dividing them into eaters and digesters. In all cases one must disregard abnormalities; after all, there are people who are better at digesting than they are at eating and vice versa. As regards masochism and sadism, it is safe to say that a healthy person displays both perversities. The only ugly thing in each case is the word. The one derived from the novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch is particularly degrading, and it is hard not to let one's taste for things be spoiled by the designation. Nevertheless, a man with an artistic imagination will manage to let an authentic woman turn him into a masochist and an inauthentic one into a sadist. One knocks the latter's educated unnaturalness out of her until the woman is revealed. If she already is a woman, the only thing left to do is adore her.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“A man's jealousy is a social institution, a woman's prostitution an instinct.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)