Frank Wedekind Quotes

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

The laws of this world are for children.

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

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

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.

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

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.

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

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

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

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