black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.

Bertolt Brecht

Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Gone Love Sad Taste
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Fall Rain Summer
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
BERTOLT BRECHT

Book Change Dog Morning
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
BERTOLT BRECHT

Diversity Justice Struggle
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Majority Purpose Shoulders
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Thinking War Writing
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
BERTOLT BRECHT

Alabama Bye Moon
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Clothes Feelings Writing
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Lying Running Writing
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Long People Silly
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Reality Taken Writing
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Poverty Wells Wise
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Latter Stupidity Workers
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Defeat Sunset Victory
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Curse Poverty Wise
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
BERTOLT BRECHT

Cutting Men Transfusion War

First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bertolt Brecht Quotes