Frank Wedekind Quotes

#1. I didn't ask to be born, and I don't owe God anything.

Frank Wedekind

#2. We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.

Frank Wedekind

#3. If our esteemed colleague, Zungenschlag, does not find our room ventilated sufficiently, I should like to suggest that our esteemed colleague, Zungenschlag, have a ventilator set into his forehead.

Frank Wedekind

#4. Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

Frank Wedekind

#5. Wendla: How did you come here?
Melchior: I followed my thoughts.

Frank Wedekind

#6. The fog is clearing; life is a matter of taste.

Frank Wedekind

#7. In my opinion it is unwise to judge a young man by his school record. We have too many examples of bad students becoming distinguished men, and, on the other hand, of brilliant students not being at all remarkable in life.

Frank Wedekind

#8. Search fearlessly for every sin, for out of sin comes joy.

Frank Wedekind

#9. Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.

Frank Wedekind

#10. Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

Frank Wedekind

#11. I only want to warn you that even the best can do one harm when one isn't ripe enough in years to receive it properly.

Frank Wedekind

#12. Monuments are for the living, not for the dead.

Frank Wedekind

#13. Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.

Frank Wedekind

#14. God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.

Frank Wedekind

#15. Your explanation brought up a host of dim recollections, which affected me as a song of his childhood affects a man on his deathbed when hear from the lips of another.

Frank Wedekind

#16. We see God and the devil blaming each other, and cherish the unspeakable belief that both of them are drunk.

Frank Wedekind

#17. The laws of this world are for children.

Frank Wedekind

#18. I was a baby when I came into the world
otherwise I might have been smart enough to become a different person.

Frank Wedekind

#19. And, therefore, hold your head high, Herr Stiefel! - Such a crisis as this comes to all of us and will soon be surmounted. If all of us had recourse to dagger or poison in such cases, there would soon be no men left in the world.

Frank Wedekind