Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht German Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956)


Bertolt Brecht -
- Grub first, then ethics.

Bertolt Brecht -
- What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

Bertolt Brecht -
- He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.

Bertolt Brecht -
- War is like love; it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht -
- War is like love; it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht -
- Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht - The Threepenny Opera (1928), Act I Scene 3
- For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.

Bertolt Brecht -
- There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.

Bertolt Brecht -
- Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht -
- Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht - The Mother, 1932
- Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht -
- Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

Bertolt Brecht - The life of Galileo
- The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Bertolt Brecht -
- On thinking about Hell, I gather
My brother Shelley found it was a place
Much like the city of London. I
Who live in Los Angeles and not in London
Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be
Still more like Los Angeles.

Bertolt Brecht -
- Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.