24 Quotes by Frank Wedekind

Ernest. Oh, I can’t eat any more. Hans. Just this shining muscatelle! Ernest. My elasticity has its limit.

Melchior. What good does that do? Moritz. What good does it have to do? – – We are fit for nothing more, neither good nor evil.

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.

I do not believe in pathos. Our elders show us long faces in order to hide their stupidity.

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