History Quote by Tim Blanning Download Open image ““Anything the Austrians could do, the Prussians could do better.”” — Tim Blanning ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“Today I look at Munich and see a city empty of all significance, invaded by Prussians and stripped of its Bavarian spirit.” — Paul Cronin Copy Share Image
“Why is it a shame for me to cause them to die and try to exterminate them, tell me? You did not talk that… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“the Germans all hate the Kaiser and there’ll most likely be a civil war, instead.” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep coming and going… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“The war brought ruin to Germany, but it couldn’t do any harm to these men. Lechner couldn’t suppress a smile. Fat will always float… — Oliver Pötzsch Copy Share Image
“...and, without once looking back, walk down the road through the forest. If the Germans want to shoot me, let them. I am too… — Audie Murphy Copy Share Image
“I beg you, no matter what happens, no matter where you go in life or how many millions you make, no matter anything, I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The Germans puzzled me. What a waste. Was such a destitute, cruel world worth ruling?” — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Kaiser Wilhelm II strengthened the military and launched Germany on an irresponsible combative journey. His arrogance proved to be his undoing.” — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“We can’t guarantee success [in this war] but we can do something better. We can deserve it.” — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
