One of the mistakes the Germans made ... was that they were not brave enough to be afraid. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
It's about time we stopped being so insecure and defensive and admitted that the Germans are better at economics than us. We… — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
“I found Americans arrogant, Germans rude, Britishers selfish, Frenchs desperate, Chinese worried and my own nation stupid.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far! — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
The Germans are indeed the economically and politically strongest power in Europe. But their superiority does not equal the past and present… — Jaroslaw Kaczynski Copy Share Image
We Germans have learned from history. We are a peace-loving, freedom-loving people. There is only one place for us in the world:… — Helmut Kohl Copy Share Image
“Q. Why don’t they work harder? A. They just don’t like hard work. The Germans have a reputation for hard work, so… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
“Oh, it'll definitely fool the Germans," Cess said. "There's no clearer proof that there's an army in the area than beer bottles… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
The Germans will make a few scattered attacks, then go away. The Romans will enjoy a fine September. — Pietro Badoglio Copy Share Image
The EU is an alliance that the Americans control, in which the EU of course has a great deal of autonomy, but… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Notionally a left-wing movement, the Anti-Germans were born after the collapse of the Berlin wall. While most Germans rejoiced at the end… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
One has to explain to people that the EU in this form is the answer both to 1945 and to the 21st… — Peer Steinbruck Copy Share Image
The Security Council represents the situation from 1945 - you had the Allies who won the war who occupied that. The defeated… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make… — Gerald Scarfe Copy Share Image
At the outset of the creation of the euro in 1999, it was expected that the southern eurozone economies would behave like… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Germany's hierarchical reverence for seniority may have something to do with the fact that everything here happens relatively late. Germans start school… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
I don't like men who live, by choice, out of their own country. I don't like interior decorators. I don't like Germans.… — Duff Cooper Copy Share Image
After a Polish Pope, whose country was first to be invaded by the Germans in World War Two, we now have someone… — Horst Koehler Copy Share Image
A number of politicians, including those within your own party, believe Germans would be safer if the German military didn't insert itself… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in… — David Kay Copy Share Image
It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were.… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace. — Walter Ulbricht Copy Share Image
The Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ass to the seat and not leaving until… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war. — Anastas Mikoyan Copy Share Image
There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was… — Manfred von Richthofen Copy Share Image
It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail. — Mark Oliphant Copy Share Image
“A poll of U.S. servicemen indicated that 44 percent would like to kill a Japanese soldier while only 6 percent felt the… — David Livingstone Smith Copy Share Image
Guardiola works incredibly hard. He is more German than the Germans when it comes to his work ethic. — Karl-Heinz Rummenigge Copy Share Image
Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live… — Christopher Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
I feel that we Germans are spending less and less time talking to each other. And even less time listening to each… — Frank-Walter Steinmeier Copy Share Image
Germans have an understanding of history and cannot allow themselves to forget it. It may be a curse, but in some ways,… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
To us Germans everything is religion. What we do we do not merely with our hands and brains, but with our hearts… — Baldur von Schirach Copy Share Image
The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
German people get very uptight if you mention World War II. Germans today feel that what's past is past, new generations don't… — Donna Summer Copy Share Image
