Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.

“[Otto von Bismarck] only considered the interests of his own country - always the worst offense that a statesman can commit in the eyes…

— A.J.P. Taylor

“This policy, viewed positively by German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck as a way to shift the focus outside of Europe, was backed by Jules…

— Charles River Editors

“No nation influenced American thinking more profoundly than Germany, W.E.B. DuBois, Charles Beard, Walter Weyl, Richard Ely, Richard Ely, Nicholas Murray Butler, and countless…

— Jonah Goldberg

“Otto von Bismarck quipped, "Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.”

— Cory Doctorow

“Realpolitik for Bismarck depended on flexibility and on the ability to exploit every available option without the constraint of ideology.”

— Henry Kissinger

Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Eden ha[s] put his country in a position where she sustained the greatest diplomatic reverse since Bismarck in similar circumstances had called Palmerston's bluff…

— Anthony Eden

If you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In studying the…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Does not all the world know that when in autumn the Bismarcks of the world, or they who are bigger than Bismarcks, meet at…

— Anthony Trollope

Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world, Prince Clemens…

— Robert D. Kaplan

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

— Florence Nightingale

Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of dreams, songs, fantasies and black-red-gold ribbons? Bismarck merely shook the tree that…

— Theodor Herzl

On the other hand, heroism is basic to the character of the Nordic peoples. This heroism of the ancient mythic period and this is…

— Alfred Rosenberg

How curious that such an outsize man, in physique as well as personality, should be remembered today mainly for giving his name to a…

— Margaret MacMillan

“When Leopold wrote that the precise frontiers of the new state or states would be defined later, [German Chancellor] Bismarck said to an aide,…

— Adam Hochschild