Drinking champagne Quote by Jessica Shattuck

“For countless Americans, Germany remains the ultimate metaphor of evil...”

— Deidre Berger

“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

“A drunken but exceedingly depressed German clown from Munich entertained the public.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The former East Germany hardly had a monopoly on complicity. Life’s every moment caught one out in one form or another.”

— Paul Russell

“The Germans puzzled me. What a waste. Was such a destitute, cruel world worth ruling?”

— Jerzy Kosiński

“We have no quarrel with the German nation, One would not quarrel with a flock of sheep. But, generation after generation, They throw up…

— Anonymous

“No matter how educated you are, no matter how irrational it seems, you will follow a glimmer of hope. The National Socialist German Workers…

— Jodi Picoult

“Germany’s emergence as a self-confident, non-aggressive, democratic power – not to speak of the humanitarian example it has set – is a pill too…

— John le Carré

“It’s a common slander of the Jews, but it’s no slander of a huge fraction of the Germans. They went like sheep to the…

— Martin Amis

“I have often wondered since if anything could have stemmed the tide at that time. The students saw in the Nazi promises a rising…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

“One maniac and millions of German folks. Looked to me like they'd shut Hitler in a pen instead of letting him shut them up.”

— Harper Lee

“Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world”

— Henry Kissinger