Heinrich Heine Insulting Quotations

From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.

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.