Vicki Baum Quote Explained: People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.

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cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.

Novelist

· Austria

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Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

- Vicki Baum

Novelist

· Austria

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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

- Vicki Baum

Novelist

· Austria

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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

- Vicki Baum

Novelist

· Austria

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when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

- Vicki Baum

Novelist

· Austria

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There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

- Vicki Baum

Novelist

· Austria

People don’t speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.

People don’t speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.

cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.

The perpetual hunger to be beautiful and that thirst to be loved which is the real curse of Eve.

You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.

Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him. Explain

God speaks to every individual through what happens to them moment by moment.

I think [Alain Robbe-Grillet] a good writer, but he speaks to the comfortable bourgeoisie. Explain

It is silence that most needs an answering — when I can no longer speak, hear me.

I’m free… to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn’t. I can. And my children will.

People don’t speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.

People don’t speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.

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