Boll Quote by Heinrich Böll

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it or you don't. You can't…

— Heinrich Böll

I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you." "And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh. "I loathe the way they…

— Heinrich Böll

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't…

— Heinrich Boll

Medals don't suit me. I'm not that kind of guy.

— Heinrich Boll

“Feelings can kill such good hard things as love and hate.”

— Heinrich Böll

I was born December 21, 1917, in Cologne, on the Rhine, the son of the sculptor and cabinet-maker, Viktor Boell, and his wife, Maria, nee Hermanns.

— Heinrich Boll

Politicians, ideologists, theologians and philosophers try time and again to provide solutions with nothing remaining: prefab solved problems.

— Heinrich Boll

Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have lived as…

— Heinrich Boll

I am a clown...and I collect moments.

— Heinrich Böll

Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined.

— Heinrich Böll

My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he knows German…

— Heinrich Boll

It's true and it's easily said that language is material, and something does materialise as one writes.

— Heinrich Boll