german Quotes

“More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.”

“It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.”

“The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.”

“A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.”

“If my theory of relativty is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.”