Quotes by : Joseph Roth

Morning birdsong filled the room. For all his high opinion of birds, privileged among God's creatures,....

Lieutenant Trotta wasn't experienced enough to know that uncouth peasant boys with noble hearts exist....

Anyone called upon to view misery will view criminality differently. All state officials should be required....

An indescribable sadness emanated from the white splendour of the staircase and balustrade; the blood-red,....

I might be capable of making figures that have heart, conscience, passion, emotion and decency. But there's....

But the sound of despair is never pleasant it sounds suspiciously like lying.

They talk about prohibition in America. What can one do in a country such as that?   'What does one....

He took the Captain as he was, and was fond of him, with his cheery heartlessness, his incapacity to....

I am alone. My heart beats only for myself. The strikers mean nothing to me. I have nothing in common....

I am not a man of my time. In fact I find it hard not to declare myself its enemy. Not, as I often remark,....