340 Quotes by Heinrich Heine

God will forgive me. It's his job.

With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round; But round himself, all tender like gold, The sun's sweet ray is hovering found.

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

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

Oh, they loved dearly: their souls kissed, they kissed with their eyes, they were both but one single kiss.

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

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

At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire of Strasburg cathedral; in the evening I become so sentimental that I would fain drink up the Milky Way without reflecting how indigestible I should find the little fixed stars, and by night there is the Devil himself broke loose in my head and no mistake.

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