Heinrich Heine's Quotes

Oh, what lies there are in kisses.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

God will forgive me. It's his job.

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

When words leave off, music begins.

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.