Dreams Quote by Stephen Greenblatt

“Security, the dignity we loved, were nowhere. So ugliness boiled up within us and resentment at the outer world which we were told was…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

“My biggest fear is that Germans will suddenly be relaxed and in a good mood. We need our unfriendliness. We need our bad moods.…

— Diana Mauer

“Germans longed to be near shit, but not in it. This, as it turns out, is an excellent description of their role in the…

— Michael Lewis

“For we Germans are snoring, buried in sleep and wine, and we are destitute of leaders who could measure up in wisdom, strategy, and…

— Martin Luther

“That's what I admire about youngish Italians, the slow dimunition of ambition, the recognition that the best is far behind them.”

— Gary Shteyngart

“At the age when we are all of us most apt to take our colouring, in the form of a reflection from the colouring…

— William Wilkie Collins

“Years later he would add that Italians have “no other aim than to live” because they “discovered a long time ago that there is…

— Gerald Martin

“We had a friendly conversation, the man shook my hand, told me to keep my spirits up........ The next day......He stared ahead as he…

— Victor Klemperer

“Never trust an Italian. The Nazis did that, and look where it got them.”

— Paul Murray

“A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a…

— Samuel Johnson

“...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

“Even the triumphant issue of his labors could not save him from reaction after so terrible an exertion, and at a time when Europe…

— Arthur Conan Doyle