Heine, Heinrich Archives - World Quotations

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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