Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
Heinrich Heine

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

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
Heinrich Heine

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

Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
Heinrich Heine

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
Heinrich Heine

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
Heinrich Heine

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

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
Heinrich Heine

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

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
Heinrich Heine

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
Heinrich Heine

There are more fools in the world than there are people.
Heinrich Heine

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

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

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.
Heinrich Heine

When words leave off, music begins.
Heinrich Heine

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
Heinrich Heine

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Heinrich Heine

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