Frank Wedekind Quotes

Virtue is the truest nobility.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.

Better not be at all than not be noble.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

Honor does not have to be defended.

Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

The natural impulses of every thoroughbred include his sense of honor; his love of fair play and courage; his dislike of pretense and of cheapness.