Quotes by Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine

German poet

Lived from: 1797 - 1856

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagGermany

Born: 13 december 1797 Died: 17 february 1856

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

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  • Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
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  • God will forgive me, that's his business.
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  • Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
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  • If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.
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  • In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.
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  • In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
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  • Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
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  • Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.
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  • Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.
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  • Oh what lies lurk in kisses!
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  • The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
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  • The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.
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  • 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.
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  • Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
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  • Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.
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  • Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
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  • 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.
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What are the most famous quotes from Heinrich Heine?

The two most famous quotes from Heinrich Heine are:

  • "Experience is a good school, but the fees are high."
  • "God will forgive me, that's his business."

When did Heinrich Heine live?

Heinrich Heine was born in 1797 and died in the year 1856.