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German Quotes by Mark Twain
- There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
- My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days,…
- It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any…
- A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.
- In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.
- Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.
- I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.
- ...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of…
- It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together,…
- I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it.…
- I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.
- It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think…
- I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so- I don't know.…
- How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!
- In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has
- A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.
- The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when…
- whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other…
- You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.
- For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian and German political degradations which would envelop the globe and steep it in…
More German Quotes
- We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd. — Pope Benedict XVI
- A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself. — Theodor Adorno
- An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts. — Otto von Bismarck
- The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to… — William Jennings Bryan
- When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian,… — Nicolas Cage
- More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature. — John le Carre
- I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they… — John le Carre
- I received a letter just before I left office from a man. I don't know why he chose to write it, but… — Ronald Reagan