Heinrich Heine Quotes
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.
Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
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.
The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
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.
When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.
When words leave off, music begins.
Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
