Wedekind Quotes & Sayings

When I asked Herr Wedekind, the baker, why he had believed in National Socialism, he said, "Because it promised to solve the unemployment problem. And it did. But I never imagined what it would lead to. Nobody did." I thought I had struck pay dirt, and I said, "What do you mean, 'what it would lead to,' Herr Wedekind?" "War," he said. "Nobody ever imagined it would lead to war." The — Milton Sanford Mayer

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

The fog is clearing; life is a matter of taste. — Frank Wedekind

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

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

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

Search fearlessly for every sin, for out of sin comes joy. — Frank Wedekind

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures. — Frank Wedekind

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

He considered getting up to check the color of the bong he'd be using but decided that obsessive checking and convulsive movements could compromise the atmosphere of casual calm he needed to maintain while he waited, protruding but not moving, for the woman he'd met at a design session for his agency's small campaign for her small theater company's new Wedekind festival, while he waited for this woman, with whom he'd had intercourse twice, to honor her casual promise. — David Foster Wallace

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

Monuments are for the living, not the dead. — Frank Wedekind

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. — Frank Wedekind

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

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

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

The laws of this world are for children. — Frank Wedekind

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

Monuments are for the living, not for the dead. — Frank Wedekind

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

Riding, she often thought, was not for those afraid to get a little dirt. — Annie Wedekind

Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque. — Frank Wedekind

Half happy. We wander among Mayflowers, among the lonely paths in the woods. We hover over gatherings of people, over the scene of accidents, gardens, festivals. We cower in chimneys of dwelling places and behind the bed curtains. Give me your hand. We don't associate with each other, but we see and hear everything that is going on in the world. We know that everything is stupidity, everything that men do and contend for, and we laugh at it. — Frank Wedekind

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