It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
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 fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
Heinrich Heine
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
Heinrich Heine
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
Heinrich Heine
The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it ... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.
Heinrich Heine
The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and all of them are right.
Heinrich Heine
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
Heinrich Heine
The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling.
Heinrich Heine
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men, and rocks them up to manhood; and this meager foster-mother remains their faithful companion throughout life.
Heinrich Heine