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"Henry James created more convincing women than iris Murdoch put together." »Wilfred Sheed
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"If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a german, and France will claim me a citizen of the world. However, if it proves wrong, France will say I'm a german, and Germany will say that I'm a jew." »Albert Einstein
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"I owe all my knowledge to the german inventor, Johannes Gutenberg!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I married a german. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me." »Bette Midler
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"Whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth." »Mark Twain
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"If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a german and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world." »Albert Einstein
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"I cherish the Franco-German cooperation as one of the most important developments in post-war Europe. But I will not accept is as being so sacrosanct that the rest of us shall simply adapt to what is decided between Paris and Berlin." »Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, President, ELDR 1995-2000, Foreign Minister 1982-1993, Nordic Embassies in Berlin 23 September 2003
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"A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as german as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance." »Clark Kerr
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"The german is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from wit" »Heinrich Heine
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"All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable german man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organisations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government." »SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.
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"A verb has a hard enough time of it in this world when it is all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it a way over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in german." »Mark Twain
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