Heinrich Heine

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

— Heinrich Heine

The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Heinrich Heine

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Heinrich Heine

God will forgive me, that's his business.

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Heinrich Heine

Oh what lies lurk in kisses!

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Heinrich Heine

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Heinrich Heine

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

— Heinrich Heine

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and all of them are right.

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Heinrich Heine

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.

— Heinrich Heine