German Quotes

652 German quotes by 461 unique authors

I do think there is much truth in the Young German idea that marriage is a shockingly immoral institution, as well as what we have… — Jane Welsh Carlyle
Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to… — Maurice Druon
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy. — Noam Chomsky
You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African-American, so we all got a little something… — Tracy Morgan
The readership of Victorian novels, when they were published, was much less diverse. People were probably white, and had enough money to be literate. Very… — Eleanor Catton
While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to… — Elliott Abrams
The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip… — Guy Davenport
My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews. — Rhea Perlman
I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
I felt no need to write a German-bashing play. — Israel Horovitz
Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared. — Stephen Kinzer
I painted with my husband a portrait of a naked Serge Gainsbourg draped with a French flag, and it hangs in our bedroom. I love… — Stephanie Szostak
The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in… — Hannah Simone
Strict shopping laws mean that most German shops close on Saturday afternoons, reopening only on Monday when everybody is back at work. — Luke Harding
After World War I, while France and other Allies were building military defenses modeled on trench warfare, German commanders were shaping a nimble fighting force. — Charles Duhigg
Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German. — W G Sebald
I think that, certainly, most of my operatic roles are in German. I think it happened because, of course, I was lucky in that I… — Jessye Norman
I never do the cute thing with animals; they are interesting shapes. I just use their profile. Because German shepherds are so easily recognizable, they… — Billy Al Bengston
German football is like English football. The Germans and the English do not play like a Brazilian side. They have to improve, bring up their… — Franz Beckenbauer
I speak some French, Spanish, a little German and Gaelic. — Terry Wogan

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