Time Quote by Michèle Audin

“He used to be a German, but he completely recovered.”

— Boris Akunin

“It may be easy with the retrospect of history to see how bad the Nazis were. But to grow up in the midst of…

— Rudi Wobbe

“school wouldn’t help them fight the Germans.”

— Lauren Wolk

“We needed germans in Paris to hear Wagner.”

— Marcel Proust

“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

“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

“...the Germans love frankness and honesty. It is so convenient to be frank and honest. This confidingness, this complacence, this showing the cards of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Were you born stupid, Heinrich, or did you have to study?”

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— John le Carre

“One adopted their language, that of the teachers and the schools, one had none of one's own. At first it was like a release,…

— Peter Hoeg

“In his entirely personal experience of them, English was jazz music, German was classical music, French was ecclesiastical music, and Spanish was from the…

— Yann Martel

“...a French lieutenant, who had been long enough out of France to forget his own language, but not long enough in England to learn…

— Henry Fielding