340 Quotes by Heinrich Heine

Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman.

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

The sun’s sweet ray is hovering discovered.

Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle.

It is an ancient story Yet is it ever new.

Onde se queimam livros, acaba-se queimando pessoas.

And the dancing has begun now, And the Dancings whirl round gaily In the waltz’s giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.