German Quotes

652 German quotes by 461 unique authors

We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English and German Protestants;… — Robert Graves
Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an… — George Bernard Shaw
The home front is always underrated by Generals in the field. And yet that is where the Great War was won and lost. The Russian,… — David Lloyd George
Some men of the line regiment who had appeared on our right started running back. I shouted out to them to halt, but they took… — Unknown Author
So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly… — Friedrich Nietzsche
No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more effective than the… — Peter Hilton
A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization. — Kingsley Amis
...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine… — Arthur Rubinstein
I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents. — Karl Marx
German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed. — Ludwig von Mises
As long as leadership from above was not lacking, the people fulfilled their duty and obligation overwhelmingly. Whether Protestant pastor or Catholic priest, both together… — Adolf Hitler
In nearly all the matters in which the Pan-German movement was wanting, the attitude of the Christian Social Party was correct and well-planned. — Adolf Hitler
Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on… — Albert Einstein
HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English. — Bertrand Russell
[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of… — Charles Edward Merriam
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture,… — Douglas Hofstadter
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,… — Mark Twain
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… — Mark Twain
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. — Mark Twain
In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language. — Mark Twain
Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German. — Mark Twain
I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language. — Mark Twain
...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… — Mark Twain
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,… — Mark Twain

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