Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of…

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount…

— Conrad Veidt

“Bismarck had cunningly taught the parties not to aim at national appeal but to represent interests. They remained class or sectional pressure-groups under the…

— Paul Johnson

“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

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

— Albert J. Nock

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

“[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

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

“Call me old-fashioned, but whenever I see those wire-fortified ribbons, I have the secret stab of nostalgia for old-timey ribbon, the kind whose ends…

— Rhoda Janzen