Frank Wedekind Quotes

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.

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

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

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

Monuments are for the living, not for the dead.

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.

If I ever have children I will let them grow up like the weeds in our flower garden. Nobody worries about them and they grow so high and thick-while the roses in the beds grow poorer and poorer every summer.

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.

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

To be frank with you, Melchior, I have almost the same feeling since I read your explanation. - - It fell at my feet during the first vacation days. I was startled. I fastened the door and flew through the flaming lines as a frightened owl flies through a burning wood - - I believe I read most of it with my eyes shut.

The sublime humorist is the most miserable, most pitiable creature in creation.

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.

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

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.

Virtue is not a bad garment, but it requires an imposing figure.

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

The laws of this world are for children.