German Quotes

I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.

Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.

The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.

I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant to be one.

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.

When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!

I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.

There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.

I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there.

I know very well that Berlin attaches great importance to NATO and solidarity, in terms of sharing the burden. For this reason, I feel confident that the German government will take the right decision, one that serves both German and NATO interests.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.

Through years of secret work, scientific and basic ground work was laid, in order to be ready again to work the German Armed Forces at the appointed hour, without loss of time or experience.

German and English firms operate internationally, while French firms do not. The only place where they all have work is in China. Anybody can sell himself in China!

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.