The German Language Quotes
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The German Language Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?
— Ken Follett
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 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
The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.
— Bayard Taylor
In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?
— Marlene Dietrich
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
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
