German Quotes

Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber ...

There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.

I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years afte...

Wenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit?

No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands...

If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give Me up to the Devil this very minute.

The German language is so sonorous, isn't it? Beautiful language...the language of poetry. Angry, an...

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

As early as 1930 Schoenberg wrote: "Radio is an enemy, a ruthless enemy marching irresistibly forwar...

Am I racially kin to this man? Baynes wondered. So closely so that for all intents and purposes it i...

An end in terror is preferable to terror without end.

In the German tongue, in the Polish townScraped flat by the rollerOf wars, wars, wars ...

Cases of typhoid take the following course:When the fever is at its height, life calls out to the pa...

He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills gi...

EpitaphDen Tigern ertrann ichDie Wanzen nährte ichAufgefressen wurde ichVon den Mittelmäßigkeiten.

In Japanese and Italian, the response to ["How are you?"] is "I'm fine, and you?" In German it's ans...

If they were going to be like that, then I just wished they hadn't actually been German. It was too ...