Frank Wedekind Quotes

I find myself evil. I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done.

God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil?

The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God.

Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

It needs brains to be a real fool.

Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of guilt by which “God is satisfied," and after that he lets them spend the rest of their lives meditating on the intense sinfulness and evident reprobation of other men.

God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.

The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

Watch for the devil. When there’s a god, there’s always a legion of devils.

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil.

Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.

If you scratch some saints you will find the devil.

I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a thousand times round hell if by so doing he can make us believe that we have a single virtue which we have not. And he is right, for such ideas are very harmful, and such imaginary virtues, when they come from this source, are never unaccompanied by vainglory; just as those which God gives are free both from this and from pride.

The eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields.

The nonsense that charms is close to sense.

Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.

I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.