"The devil take these people and their language!……" — Heinrich Heine
"The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out again, and call that speaking. Fortunately they are by nature fairly silent, and although they gaze at us open-mouthed, they spare us long conversations."
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172 Quotes by Heinrich Heine
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Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
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There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.
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I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed,…
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In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious.
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Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
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Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk,…
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Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
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Atheism is the last word of theism
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