Fish Quote by Margaret MacMillan

“Friedrich von Bernhardi, one of Germany’s most influential military thinkers. Bernhardi believed the German people were destined to become the master race, who would…

— Paul Ham

“Suddenly his face twisted into a sneer. ‘Oh, I can see what you’re thinking, Hartmann. “What a vulgar fellow! A car salesman! And now…

— Robert Harris

“A Bavarian is mixture between an Austrian and a human being." -Otto von Bismarck  ”

— Diana Mauer

His [Erwin Schrödinger's] private life seemed strange to bourgeois people like ourselves. But all this does not matter. He was a most lovable person,…

— Max Born

“Bismarck defined political intuition as the ability to hear, before anybody else, “the distant hoofbeats of history.”

— Michael Dobbs

Frenchman: Germans with good food.

— Fran Lebowitz

In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William…

— Kelly Miller

Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of dreams, songs, fantasies and black-red-gold ribbons? Bismarck merely shook the tree that…

— Theodor Herzl

“Realpolitik for Bismarck depended on flexibility and on the ability to exploit every available option without the constraint of ideology.”

— Henry Kissinger

“The man who had asked my name in Obersalzberg in the summer of 1934 had been a dominant personality excluding a spellbinding charisma to…

— Heinz Linge

“The man with the Charlie Chaplin mustache, who had been a down-and-out tramp in Vienna in his youth, an unknown soldier of World War…

— William L. Shirer

He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.

— Greg Mortenson