Frank Wedekind Quotations

The laws of this world are for children.

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

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

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

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.

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 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.

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

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.