German Quotes

652 German quotes by 461 unique authors

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.… — Mark Twain
I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter. — Mark Twain
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… — Mark Twain
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.… — Mark Twain
How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand! — Mark Twain
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs — Friedrich Nietzsche
Wandering around back stage at a willie Nelson concert is a bit like being the parrot on the shoulder of the guy who's running the… — Kinky Friedman
A German shepherd dog could walk in the office with a script in his mouth, and if that script was really good, they'd buy the… — Peter Guber
The Montefiores have taken Australia for their own, and there is not a gold field or a sheep run from Tasmania to New South Wales… — Unknown Author
Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the (Rothschild) brothers conducted important transactions on behalf of the governments of England, France, Prussia, Austria, Belgium,… — G. Edward Griffin
If I am right the Germans will say I was a German, and the French will say I was a Jew; If I am wrong… — Albert Einstein
The man and the movement seemed 'reactionary' in my eyes. My common sense of justice, however, forced me to change this judgment in proportion as… — Adolf Hitler
The alleged Hitlerite gas chambers and the alleged genocide of the Jews constitute one and the same historical lie, which made possible a gigantic financial-political… — Robert Faurisson
People always think I’m dainty when they meet me, but I’m really not. I’m very German – we’re not made out of sugar. — Diane Kruger
I could play a cop, I could play a crook, I could play a lawyer, I could play a dentist, I could play an art… — Walter Matthau
I have the brain of a German Shepherd and the body of a 16-year-old boy; they’re both in my car and I want you to… — Bob Saget
I can't like watching Project Runway with Heidi Klum. There's just something wrong about a German woman saying who goes and who stays — Joan Rivers
I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there. — Ted Shackelford
Few tears will be shed over the demise of the East German army, but what about East Germany’s eighty symphony orchestras, bound to lose some… — Unknown Author
I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs. — Michael Cerveris
The German people are not a warlike nation. It is a soldierly one, which means it does not want a war, but does not fear… — Adolf Hitler
The German people have no idea of the extent to which they have to be gulled in order to be led. — Adolf Hitler
Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts. — Anna Funder
The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The German asparagus are fabulous. — George W. Bush

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