It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
BERTOLT BRECHTOne forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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