Quotes By Heinrich Heine

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

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

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.

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

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

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

God will forgive me. It's his job.

Oh, what lies there are in kisses.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

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

God will forgive me; that's his business.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

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.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

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

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

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

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.