Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Wedekind

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German playwright Frank Wedekind.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Frank Wedekind

Benjamin Franklin Wedekind was a German playwright. His work, which often criticizes bourgeois attitudes, is considered to anticipate expressionism and was influential in the development of epic theatre.

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.
The laws of this world are for children.
Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it. — © Frank Wedekind
Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.
Monuments are for the living, not the dead.
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.
Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.
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.
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