Quotes By Heinrich Heine

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

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

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

When words leave off, music begins.

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

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

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

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

Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.

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

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

Atheism is the last word of theism.

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

Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

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

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

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

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.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

Oh, what lies there are in kisses.

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

God will forgive me. It's his job.

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

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

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

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

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