Heinrich Heine Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

  Heinrich Heine

  Literature, Ask Me, Asks

• Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

  Heinrich Heine

  Marriage, Sea, Literature

  Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”

• He only profits from praise who values criticism.

  Heinrich Heine

  Good Life, Gossip, Envy

• True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

  Heinrich Heine

  Silence, Literature, Eloquence

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (Maxims and Moral Sentences, No. 262), 1922.

• I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

  Heinrich Heine

  Literature, Ass, Public Speaking

• When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

  Heinrich Heine

  Hero, Literature, Clown

• 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".

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

  Heinrich Heine

  Heart, People, Revolution

• I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

  Heinrich Heine

  Women, Character, New Day

• Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

  Heinrich Heine

  Wise, Stupid, Men

• Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.

  Heinrich Heine

  Faith, Men, Literature

  "The Sword and the Flame".

• I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

  Heinrich Heine

  Battle, Half, Literature

• It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

  Heinrich Heine

  Believe, Atheism, Literature

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

  Heinrich Heine

  Fiction, Genius, Literature

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

  Heinrich Heine

  Time, Fighting, Ideas

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.90

• Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.

  Heinrich Heine

  Literature, Morgues, Related

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.123

• The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

  Heinrich Heine

  Evil, Fundamentals, Literature

  "The Pillars of Economic Understanding: Factors and Markets". Book by Charles R. McCann, 2000.

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