Absolutes Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

The triumph of the written word is often attained when the writer achieves union and trust with the reader, who then becomes ready to…

— Chinua Achebe

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.

— John le Carre

You need a lot of words to say anything in German.

— Harry Enfield

“A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

It's an academic book, and it's discussed under academic criteria. German historians cultivate so-called objectivity. They persuade themselves that they can switch off the…

— Gotz Aly

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

“and whatever good Germany has is not the result of her own power, virtue, or wisdom, but has been received from those rejected, despised,…

— Martin Luther

“When authors write best, or at least, when they write most fluently, an influence seems to waken in them which becomes their master, which…

— Charlotte Brontë

The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with…

— Oliver Goldsmith