Dostoevsky Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Germany was being run by a loudmouthed rabble-rouser, bent on baiting other nations to war and making life miserable for countless innocent citizens. And…

— Jessica Shattuck

“Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them”

— Harper Lee

“Under the ground, in Munich, Germany, two people stood and spoke in a basement. It sounds like the beginning of a joke: 'There's a…

— Markus Zusak

“At the age of twenty, his artistic dreams frustrated, Hitler was a tramp: park benches, soup queues. Given just a little more talent, perhaps,…

— Martin Amis

“He didn't know how to speak properly, how to walk properly, how to comb his hair, and she felt embarrassed for him as he…

— Ursula Hegi

“To give expression to humour, and write in a strain of graceful pleasantry, is the gift of great geniuses. The cleverest character in comedy…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“I stood and looked at the large framed painting of the Pierrot clown that hung on her wall and sympathised with the tears that…

— Eileen Munroe

“At moments like this he suspected that Hitler had been nothing but a harried bureaucrat and Satan himself a mental defective with a rudimentary…

— Stephen King

“He said that the only decent German philosopher was Lichtenberg, who was less a philosopher than the ultimate jokester and clown.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“The Nazis understand everything except humour.”

— Mary Berg

I really like the mentality of the people in Munich.

— Franck Ribery

[Interminable monologues] became an issue only late in [Adolf] Hitler's life. He became repetitive after the war started going badly in Russia. He wasn't…

— Gretl Braun