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Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it. — Maurice Druon

German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. — Willie Rushton

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language. — Mark Twain

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

Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts. — Karl Kraus

Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German. — Martin Freeman

For me, at least, much of the German I see and hear sounds stranger than Swedish, a language of which I unfortunately understand very little. — Heinrich Boll

Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German. — Clarence Nash

Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German. — Anne Frank

There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German. — Paul Celan

My parents would not permit ugly language in the house, which was okay with me. I didn't want to learn German anyway. — Alex Bosworth

Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization. — Alice Schwarzer

Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language. — Jacob Grimm

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being. — Martin Heidegger

The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary — Dave Kellett

Indulged a pair of affable though persistent Zeugen Jehovas who, each month, arrived on her doorstep with a German-language copy of The Watchtower. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

The German language is so sonorous, isn't it? Beautiful language ... the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry. — John Oliver

This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger. — Mark Twain

How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand! — Mark Twain

When people say that German or any other language is romantic ... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language. — John Irving

It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing? — Ken Follett

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter. — Mark Twain

Though unmusical, German is the most expressive of all languages, — Arthur Conan Doyle

I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet so expressive. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian. — Bayard Taylor

I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965. — Wanda Jackson

The German language is the organ among the languages. — Jean Paul

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry. — Mark Twain

I would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective. — Mark Twain

I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language. — Mark Twain

Lincoln bought a German language newspaper. — Harold Holzer

When one is polite in German, one lies. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

G.W.F. Hegel. "He's perfect," Weishaupt wrote ... "Unlike Kant, who makes sense only in German, this man doesn't make sense in any language. — Robert Anton Wilson

In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English? — Marlene Dietrich

You can never understand one language until you understand at least two. — Geoffrey Willans