38 Quotes About Germans
- Author Sofia Samatar
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There is nothing, he tells me, more odious than a German. However, their women are seductive, and they make the world's most beautiful music. My employer sings me a German song. He sounds like a buffalo in distress. Afterward he makes me read to him from the Bible.
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- Author Rob Grant and Doug Naylor
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What's it like?""Death? It's like being on holiday with a group of Germans.
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- Author Vladimir Nabokov
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Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous growths—until the Germans put her to death, together with all the people she had worried about.
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- Author Christopher Lee Bollyn
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Ninety-five percent of the work of the intelligence agencies around the world is deception and disinformation," he said...
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- Author Ouida
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I only care for the subjective life; I am very German, you see: The woods interest me, and the world does not.
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- Author Jack Lewis Baillot
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It was just Franz!”“Just Franz?” Franz retorted, catching the last part as the window jerked free of the ice which held it to the window sill. “Since when did I become 'Just Franz'? I'm almost another member of your family!”Japhet leaned on the frame, not caring when cold snow seeped into his sleeves. “That's when you became 'Just Franz',” he said. “Like Ruth is 'Just Ruth'. And you ruined my drawing. I hope you're happy.
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- Author Roman Payne
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I was glad to be made awarethat “Veimke” (jeune fille au pair),is subject to natural law,and can be made fat,by such things as poor diet,and alcohol.
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- Author John Wyndham
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They made a mess of 1914. They came a cropper in 1940. And now they're working up for it again.
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- Author Courtney Love
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[Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.
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