Germans Quotes

218 quotes by 177 authors

West Germans are tall, pink, pert and orthodontically corrected, with hands, teeth and hair as clean as their clothes and clothes as sharp as their… — P.J. O'Rourke
Germans respond well to lies. At least, they always have historically. — P.J. O'Rourke
Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he'll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came… — Neal Stephenson
We Germans are so good at penalties because we have had to rebuild our country twice. — Jurgen Klinsmann
The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a… — George Henry Borrow
John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a… — Carl Bernstein
Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans. — Siegfried Sassoon
Germans make nice cars. — Jason Behr
The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British Â£5 and they will borrow Â£25 and spend it. — John Major
Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation… — Christopher Heyerdahl
Boy, those Germans have a word for everything! — Homer
Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about. — John Badham
Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish holocaust or Black… — Adela Popescu
Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it's not exclusive to the Germans. — Bill Nighy
The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air! — Thomas Carlyle
One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else — Will Rogers
The Germans have a wonderful combination of pathos, energy, and humor. They are like Californians with an education. — Joan Juliet Buck
In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse… — Jose Rizal

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