Ask me not what I have, but what I am.
- Heinrich Heine Quote

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

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
- Heinrich Heine Quote

God will forgive me; that's his business.
- Heinrich Heine Quote

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

He only profits from praise who values criticism.
- Heinrich Heine Quote

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
- Heinrich Heine Quote

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

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

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

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

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
- Heinrich Heine Quote

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

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

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
- Heinrich Heine Quote

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

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

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.
- Heinrich Heine Quote

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

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

There are more fools in the world than there are people.
- Heinrich Heine Quote

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
- Heinrich Heine Quote

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.
- Heinrich Heine Quote

When words leave off, music begins.
- Heinrich Heine Quote

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
- Heinrich Heine Quote

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

Woman is at once apple and serpent.
- Heinrich Heine Quote