Quote

The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: It exists in spite of its ministers.

Heinrich Heine

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Heinrich Heine
Age: 58 †
Born: 1797
Born: December 13
Died: 1856
Died: February 17
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Poet Lawyer
Publicist
Writer
Dusseldorf
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine
Heinrich Heine
Christian Heine
Christian Johann Heinrich Harry Heine
Offers
Support
Behalf
Religion
Hypocrisy
Fact
Ministers
Facts
Republic
Might
Corruption
Spite
Exists

More quotes by Heinrich Heine

Image
The lotus flower is troubled At the sun's resplendent light With sunken head and sadly She dreamily waits for the night.
Heinrich Heine
Image
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
Heinrich Heine
Image
Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.
Heinrich Heine
Image
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
Image
If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.
Heinrich Heine
Image
Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.
Heinrich Heine
Image
Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. Oh, what lies there are in kisses!
Heinrich Heine
Image
He only profits from praise who values criticism.
Heinrich Heine
Image
All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.
Heinrich Heine
Image
The gazelles so gentle and clever Skip lightly in frolicsome mood.
Heinrich Heine
Image
Matrimony the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
Heinrich Heine
Image
Newness hath an evanescent beauty.
Heinrich Heine
Image
Thought is invisible nature.
Heinrich Heine
Image
Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
Heinrich Heine
Image
Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.
Heinrich Heine
Image
Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.
Heinrich Heine
Image
He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.
Heinrich Heine
Image
The butterfly long loved the beautiful rose, And flirted around all day While round him in turn with her golden caress, Soft fluttered the sun's warm ray.... I know not with whom the rose was in love, But I know that I loved them all. The butterfly, rose, and the sun's bright ray, The star and the bird's sweet call.
Heinrich Heine
Image
But a day must come when the fire of youth will be quenched in my veins, when winter will dwell in my heart, when his snow flakes will whiten my locks, and his mists will dim my eyes. Then my friends will lie in their lonely grave, and I alone will remain like a solitary stalk forgotten by the reaper.
Heinrich Heine
Image
Don't send a poet to London.
Heinrich Heine