"He who does not understand a joke, he……" — Georg Brandes
"He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish."
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38 Quotes by Georg Brandes
Georg Brandes has 38 quotes on this site.
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I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to…
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The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.
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It is useless to send armies against ideas.
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Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.
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I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.
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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity....
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My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my…
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When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.
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School is a foretaste of life.
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Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life…
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The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.
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A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been…
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More Danish Quotes
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one of 52 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.
— Clementine Paddleford
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In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by…
— Louis Pasteur
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A dash derives from "to dash," to shatter, strike violently, to throw suddenly or violently, hence to throw carelessly in…
— Eric Partridge
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The cartoonists treated Islam the same way they treat Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and other religions. And by treating Muslims in…
— Flemming Rose
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A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a Danish.
— Chevy Chase
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My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.
— Ted Shackelford
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Many foreigners have asked me how we made the Danish style. And I've answered that it...was rather a continuous process…
— Hans Wegner
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People don't think of their office as a workplace anymore. They think of it as a stationary store with Danish.…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival
— Gillian Flynn
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We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult…
— Fredrik Bajer
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At one point [Cardew] taught himself to play guitar simply in order to take part in the performance in a…
— Morton Feldman
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Silver is the best material we have. And silver has this wonderful shine like moonlight ... a light taken straight…
— Unknown Author
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