Heinrich Heine Quotes

The Devil, of course, must have been or must be a very charming person.

The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!

Satan is willing to have us worship anything, however sacred - the Bible, the crucifix, the church - if only we do not worship God Himself.

He looked good, like sin in a suit.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

They say that the Devil is a charming man. And just like you I bet he can dance.

So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.

Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was poisoned by an asp that was brought to her in a basket of fair flowers. Sharp-edged tools, long handled, wound at last.

We even switched to a newly-formed church across the town that gave one hundred and twenty trading stamps each time we attended. (We now worship a brown and white chicken with a sunburst on its chest.)

The fish adores the bait.

The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.

How does Satan mislead us? By misquoting Scripture. By leading us astray. By getting us to make excuses instead of repenting.

Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

There are so many fools in the world for the devil to operate upon, it gives him the advantage oftentimes.

The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

In one sense what may pass between the pope and myself may be trivialities. In another sense the fact of talking trivialities is itself a portent of great significance. But the pleasantries which we exchange may, as one church leader said, be pleasantries about profundities.

Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women.

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer] who sups with it will find his spoon getting shorter and shorter--until that last supper in which he is left alone at the table, with no spoon at all and with an empty plate. The devil, one may guess, will by then have gone away to more interesting company.

Satan can make men dance upon the brink of hell as though they were on the verge of heaven.

Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.

God never tempts any man. That is Satan's business.

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.