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Bertolt Brecht

Read through the most famous quotes from Bertolt Brecht




Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.


— Bertolt Brecht


#mistake #mix #mixing #new #old

People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.


— Bertolt Brecht


#last #long #main #much #people

Right is its own defense.


— Bertolt Brecht


#own #right

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.


— Bertolt Brecht


#elements #else #everything #leadership #many

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?


— Bertolt Brecht


#gone #happens #hole

What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?


— Bertolt Brecht


#breaking #compared #founding #into

One 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.


— Bertolt Brecht


#difference #easily #forgets #his #image

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.


— Bertolt Brecht


#makes #poverty #wise #you

Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.


— Bertolt Brecht


#contribute #knows #only #science

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.


— Bertolt Brecht


#good taste #human #important #more #sometimes






About Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht Quotes




Did you know about Bertolt Brecht?

He did short sketches in which he played refractory employees orchestral musicians or photographers who hated their employers and made them look ridiculous. At school in Augsburg he met Caspar Neher with whom he formed a lifelong creative partnership Neher designing many of the sets for Brecht's dramas and helping to forge the distinctive visual iconography of their epic theatre. In 1930 Brecht married Weigel; their daughter Barbara Brecht was born soon after the wedding.

A theatre practitioner of the 20th century Brecht made contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production the latter through the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble – the post-war theatre company operated by Brecht and his wife long-time collaborator and actress Helene Weigel.

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