Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of being... created so as to understand them to some degree.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Flaemmchen: Did you ever see a stenographer with a decent frock on? The Baron: I have indeed.... Flaemmchen: One she'd bought herself? The Baron: Oh, I see what you mean.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Grusinskaya: You must go now. The Baron: I'm not going. You know I'm not going. Oh, please let me stay.... Grusinskaya: But I want to be alone. The Baron: That isn't true. You don't want to be alone. You were in despair just now. I can't leave you now. You mustn't cry anymore. You must forget. Let me stay for just a little while. Ahh, please let me stay. Grusinskaya: For just a minute then.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kringelein: I'm going to live. I'm going to have a good time while I can. The Baron: That's my motto, Kringelein. A short lif...e and a gay one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"You are Herr Karl Kraus, aren't you?" asked a young man who was sharing my compartment on a train and who had overestimated my de...fenselessness. "No," I said, which meant that I admitted it. Because if I had been someone else, I would have started a conversation with that idiot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Maria: When we enter the Abbey, our worldly clothes are given to the poor. Colonel Von Trapp: What about this one?... Maria: The poor didn't want this one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeate...dly emphasized.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »