Quotes By Heinrich Heine

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.

Oh, what lies there are in kisses.

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.

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.