Among no people was the belief in immortality so strong as among the Celts; you could also borrow money from them, on the condition that you would return it to the other world.
Never talk about the attitude towards the Jews! The Spaniard, who every night talks to the Mother of God in his dream, out of delicacy, does not touch the subject of her relationship with God the Father: even the most perfect conception still remains a conception.
Nothing stings a man harder than women's little safety pins. We're ready for the heavy blows of the sword, but we tickle the most sensitive places!
Morality is the reason of the heart.
About Napoleon's enemies: they vilify him, but each time with a recognized respect: when they throw nasty words at him with their right hand, the left one aligns with the cheek.
About the journalists who provided unfounded information about Heine, for example that he was admitted to the hinge: The smaller this nuisance, the harder it is accessible. That's it: fleas don't horseshoe.
About Mary Magdalene in Paolo Veronese's Christ: She is so lovely that you are afraid she will be seduced again.
Of the dead we must speak only good, and of the living we must speak only evil.
About the writers of "Young Germany": I sowed dragon's teeth but reaped its fleas.
Ah, this Paradise! A miraculous creation: woman has barely risen to the level of thought and self-consciousness; and her first thought was: a new dress!
About one of my contemporaries: Klauren has become so famous in Germany today that you won't be admitted to any brothel if you haven't read it.
A poet said, "The first king was a happy soldier!" as for the founders of the present financial dynasties, we may state, prosaically, that the first banker was a lucky scoundrel.
He is critical not of great writers, but of small ones - under his magnifying glass, whales do not fit, but there is enough room, instead, for interesting fleas.
He analyzes the small writers with a magnifying glass and the great ones with a shrinking one.
She looks like the venus of Milo: very old, toothless and pale.
And opium is a religion. There is a much greater kinship between opium and religion than people can imagine.
The one who insulted never forgives. Only the insulted can forgive.
Beware of encouraging Jewish baptism. This is nothing but water that dries easily. On the contrary, encourage circumcision - this is a faith, penetrated into the flesh, but which can no longer penetrate into the spirit.
To make wise words and to borrow money, you have to be quick.
From the arrogance of wealth nothing can protect you - except death and satire.
The first virtue of the Germans is the well-known loyalty, a little clumsy, but touchingly generous loyalty. The German fights even for the most unjust cause, once he received an advance or, being drunk, promised his support.
The first who compared the woman to the flower was a great poet, but the second was an imbecile.
The translator in relation to the author is the same as the monkey in relation to man.
Before death: God will forgive me, because that's his job.
The latest works of a true poet are not far more significant than the first; no, the first child is not worse than the second, but simply, the second birth is easier.
When we read about revolutions in books, everything seems very beautiful in appearance: the landscapes, engraved with great skill on white parchment, are so clean, so friendly, but when you analyze them in nature, they can win by their grandeur, but, the details are very dirty, it's a disgusting show; a pile of garbage etched on copper has no smell, and the eye does not react to the swamp etched in metal.
They call Polish women angels on earth, as they call the angels themselves Poles of heaven.
The polemic contributed to the elaboration of dogmas.
Poland is located between Russia and France.
The portrait of the author, which precedes his works, involuntarily reminds me of Genoa, where, in front of the hospital for the mentally ill, there is a statue of the founder of this hospital.