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A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. — Mark Twain

In the Third Reich every German girl will find a husband! — William L. Shirer

When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.' — Pablo Picasso

It was neither German nor Jew who ruled the ghetto - it was illusion. — Elie Wiesel

That cat was a spy. You had to take a pot shot at it. It was a very clever German midget dressed up in a cheap fur coat. — J.D. Salinger

We were looking for a 'good shepherd', and instead we got a German shepherd. — Pope Benedict XVI

I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time. — Tory Burch

Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
Georgius Secundus was then alive,
Snuffy old drone from the German hive. — Oliver Wendell Holmes

No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best. — Alain Prost

There have only been two world-class goalkeepers. One was Lev Yashin, the other was the German boy who played for Manchester City. — Lev Yashin

Jacob is a German Shepherd. (I have never understood why they aren't called German Sheepdogs. What do the Germans call shepherds?) — Alan Coren

If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm. — J.D. Salinger

The German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, was one of the few authentic geniuses among nineteenth-century statesmen. — Niall Ferguson

The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure. — Gerard Debreu

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

All German women are beautiful. — Heidi Klum

I'd say I'm a good cook. I have a lot of German recipes that I can make - schnitzel, meatballs and things with cabbage. I love cabbage. — Heidi Klum

You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does. — P. J. O'Rourke

I've two huge German shepherds who are my boys. They're called Biscuit and Buster, and I love them to bits. — Martin Compston

I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun. — D.H. Lawrence

all major German crimes took place in areas where state institutions had been destroyed, dismantled, or seriously compromised. — Timothy Snyder

the German sociologist Wolfgang Sofsky wrote that "absolute power is a structure, not a possession. — Anne Applebaum

A German shepherd dog could walk in the office with a script in his mouth, and if that script was really good, they'd buy the script. — Peter Guber

There's a documentary film-maker called Werner Herzog, who's a German film-maker. I really dig his stuff, I'd love to chat with him. — Finn Jones

A German vegetarian might well prefer to marry a French vegetarian than a German carnivore. — Yuval Noah Harari

The great scandal of American life is that we pay for German levels of government without enjoying the related benefits. — Kevin D. Williamson

You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label. — Mark Twain

[D]avid began to argue, with the whining intonations of German astonishment, [ ... ] that everyone did it. — Vladimir Nabokov

In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he'd met on the internet. — Michel Houellebecq

I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins. — Peter Ustinov

Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.) — Madeleine L'Engle

It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.' — Matthew Stewart

If I think of all those homosexuals in Germany today, I think I'd hand my German passport back, if I had one. — Klaus Barbie

I'd like to set a story in Australia, but I would need to feel confident my German and U.S. readers, for example, would stay with me. — Michael Robotham

When I raced with Mercedes, I thought I'd learn German. But my wife didn't want to live in Germany. — Juan Manuel Fangio

The German army is a machine, and machines can be broken! — Konstantin Rokossovsky

No matter where you go in the world, a German will have beaten you there, clad in a sweaty black T-shirt and a smug expression. — Claire Dederer

Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people. — Karl Marx

My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia. — Kaniehtiio Horn

I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart. — Ernst Kaltenbrunner

During Christmas time, on German television they show films with three or four episodes, and I quite like the feeling of waiting for the next episode. — Volker Bertelmann

You'd got a baseball game, or a football game, basketball game, "USA! USA! USA!" Hey, calm down! Got a little German on it, don't you think? — Chris Rock

German woman yanked Isabelle forward. She stumbled along, her feet screaming in pain, — Kristin Hannah

The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Berlin is like being abroad in Germany. It's German, but not provincial. — Claudia Schiffer

George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity. — Helmut Kohl

German Emancipation Edict of 1822 guaranteed Jews in Germany all civil rights enjoyed by Germans. — Anonymous

How can German music not be represented by an article? — Wassily Kandinsky

I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true. — Daniel Breaker

You can be a German, you can be a Greek or a Spanish or a Japanese etc, but your true nation is the whole humanity! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

My father had drawn number 3,004 in a death lottery in which German precision trumped Nazi brutality. — Leonard Mlodinow

Throughout the history of the Deutschritter the German genius is very evident, romantic idealism implemented with utter ruthlessness. — Desmond Seward

If you go back all the way to the 1920s, filmmakers in Hollywood changed the identity of villains from German to Russian. — Evan Osnos

It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army. — Wilhelm II

I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French. — Wang Leehom

Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings — Barbara W. Tuchman

I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind. — George S. Patton

The Japanese are easily influenced,
Italian's are infectious,
And German's are German's wherever they go. — Hidekaz Himaruya

It was well said of a certain German book that 'er lasst sich nicht lesen" - it does not permit itself to be read. — Edgar Allan Poe

Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy. — Noam Chomsky

The East German manages to combine a Teutonic capacity for bureauracy with a Russian capacity for infinite delay — Goronwy Rees