Clumsy Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

These Germans seem an odd race, a mixture of clay and spirit - what with their beer-drinking and smoking, and their slow, stolid ways,…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

German writings attain popularity through a great name, or through personalities, or through good connections, or through effort,or through moderate immorality, or through accomplished…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The Germans have a wonderful combination of pathos, energy, and humor. They are like Californians with an education.

— Joan Juliet Buck

Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen of Tacitus,…

— Tacitus

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…

— Mark Twain

My German is not great, I'm not going to lie! I only know a few words.

— Emile Smith Rowe

“Even in the early nineteenth century, people like Goethe had little good to say about grumbling, coarsely behaved nationalist romantics of the Arndt or…

— Götz Aly

The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Boy, those Germans have a word for everything!

— Homer

The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I would rather not tell you here things which every German has at heart.

— Albert Speer