Heinrich Heine Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

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

  Heinrich Heine

  Funny, Life, Education

  As quoted in "The Medical Record", No. 674, October 6, 1883.

• The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.

  Heinrich Heine

  People, Envy, Elements

  "Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts".

• The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So a broken column of the old Roman times, an old tower of Lombardy, a weather- beaten Gothic piece of a pillar understands me well. But I am a ruin myself, wandering among ruins.

  Heinrich Heine

  Thinking, Weather, Broken

• The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out again, and call that speaking. Fortunately they are by nature fairly silent, and although they gaze at us open-mouthed, they spare us long conversations.

  Heinrich Heine

  Long, People, Insulting

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