Heine, Heinrich Archives - World Quotations

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.

Adaptability

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.

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

Censorship

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

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

Cries and Crying

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

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

Experience

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

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

Forgiveness

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

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Forgiveness

God will forgive me, that’s his business.

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

Genius

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

Oh what lies lurk in kisses!

Kisses and Kissing

Oh what lies lurk in kisses!

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

Language

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

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

Marriage

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

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

Newspapers

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

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

Politicians and Politics