Humor Quote by Guy Deutscher

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

“And I did not speak German well; I found the language harsh and guttural, my ear simply couldn’t find it pleasing, and so my…

— Melanie Benjamin

[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.

— Madame de Stael

The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal circumstance that…

— Edward Gibbon

“Every person of intelligence should be able to use his mother tongue correctly. It only requires a little pains, a little care, a little…

— Joseph Devlin

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

— Clifton Fadiman

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

— Mark Twain

West Germans are tall, pink, pert and orthodontically corrected, with hands, teeth and hair as clean as their clothes and clothes as sharp as…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use…

— Charles William Eliot

“Curious how these early linguistic abilities are so fragile, how unthinkingly and easily the brain lets them go.”

— William Boyd

Germans respond well to lies. At least, they always have historically.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.

— Friedrich Nietzsche