Germans Quotes

218 Germans quotes by 177 unique authors

Jacob is a German Shepherd. (I have never understood why they aren't called German Sheepdogs. What do the Germans call shepherds?) — Alan Coren
During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about… — Stephen Ambrose
If you look at casualties, you find countries that had much higher loss rates per capita than the US. Denmark comes to mind, the United… — David Petraeus
What do you call that nice, shiny white metal they use to make sidings and airplanes out of? Aluminum, right? Aluminum, pronounced 'uh-LOO-mih-num', right? Anybody… — Isaac Asimov
There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nation as the only proper course after military… — J.R.R. Tolkien
You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we… — Boris Johnson
The Germans sell chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq. The wounded are then sent to Germany to be treated. Veritable human guinea pigs. — Marjane Satrapi
Because of their cuisine, Germans don't consider farting rude. They'd certainly be out of luck if they did. — P.J. O'Rourke
The French got enough from the Germans to save them from starvation; but many a woman sold herself for a loaf or a chunk of… — Ernst Toller
We need a war every 10 years, so we can stay match fit in case the Germans try again. — Al Murray
When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first... Of course, to observe is not its real duty, we already… — Alan Turing
Just like at Hirojima, when Pearl Harbor bombed the Germans! — Scott Steiner
What would be the difference if we retreated and let the French and Germans make decisions for the world? We tried that twice in the… — Tammy Bruce
Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this… — Thomas Carlyle
One of the mistakes the Germans made ... was that they were not brave enough to be afraid. — Gunter Grass
I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish… — Gunter Grass
The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat. — Primo Levi
Poles did not like Jews and they were worse than Germans. — Menachem Begin
Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and… — Gustav Stresemann
It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that… — James Laughlin
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

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