German Quotes

652 German quotes by 461 unique authors

I told Ing once that she dances like a German and she didn't like it, but it's true: she dances seriously, like lives are hanging… — Audrey Niffenegger
Families are like countries. They have their own language and jokes and secrets and assumptions about the right and wrong ways of doing things, and… — Roland Merullo
Michael: Barzini will set me up through somebody close... that, supposedly, I won't suspect. Hagen: Somebody like me. Michael: You're Irish, they won't trust you.… — Mario Puzo
Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or the death of… — Michael Chabon
Heimat. The word mean home in German, the place where one was born. But the term also conveys a subtler nuance, a certain tenderness. One's… — Jenna Blum
[Clover] secretly hitched a ride with a nice German couple and their new baby...Clover appeared to the baby, so as to be a delightful, soothing… — Obert Skye
No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche. — Walter Kaufmann
On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one… — Stella Gibbons
Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.) — Madeleine L'Engle
what is a german? to say a man is a german, what is that? does it tell you if he is a good man? or… — Bryce Courtenay
On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of… — Umberto Eco
Yes, the sky was now a devastating, home-cooked red. The small German town had been flung apart one more time. Snowflakes of ash fell so… — Markus Zusak
What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black,… — Sylvia Plath
...when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn't join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he couldn't. 'If… — Eric Metaxas
I had an interview once with some German journalistâ€”some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communistsâ€”maybe a week afterâ€”and she… — Karl Lagerfeld
In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom heâ€™d met on the internet. — Michel Houellebecq
Why had I taken all those useless classes like bio and German when I should have been taking lipreading? — Meg Cabot
you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're… — Paulo Coelho
That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the beginning of victory,… — Hannah Arendt
A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself. — Anthony Horowitz

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