Quotes by Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

German - Austrian writer

Lived from: 1898 - 1956

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagGermany

Born: 10 february 1898 Died: 14 august 1956

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  • What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
    Jungle of Cities
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  • What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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  • What rapture, oh, it is to know
    A good thing when you see it
    And having seen a good thing, oh,
    What rapture 'tis to flee it.
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  • What they could do with round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
    Mother Courage and Her Children The Sergeant, in Scene 1
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  • What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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  • Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.
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  • Why be a man when you can be a success?
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  • Worship with fulness of heart the weak memory of heaven!
    It cannot trace
    Either your name or your face
    Nobody knows you're still living.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Great hymn of thanksgiving [Grosser Dankchoral] (1
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  • Would it not be easier In that case for the government To dissolve the people And elect another?
    The Solution [Die Lösung] After the rebellion of East German workers.
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  • You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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  • You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy
    But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
    The Threepenny Opera Macheath in Second Threepenny-Finale; Act 2, scene
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  • Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.
    Referring to Arturo Ui (representing Adolf Hitler), in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1941)
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