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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
When looking at Germans, I have never felt a sense that they are guilty. I have encountered anti-Semitism in the United States as well.
The way Germans work is that they are slow to warm up but when they do they are your friend for life and very loyal.
The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.
Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it's not exclusive to the Germans.
How nice. Now the Germans can sleep in peace, knowing that they will not be invaded by us.
Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.
The Germans will crawl bollock-naked over broken glass to get low fares.
Because of their cuisine, Germans don't consider farting rude. They'd certainly be out of luck if they did.
In the 1930s, there were so many different conflicts going on between the British, the French, the Russians, the Germans, the Spaniards, the Romanians and so on.
In mass cruelty, the expulsions of Germans ordered by the Russians fall not very far short of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis.
My father fought in World War I and single-handedly destroyed the Germans' line of communication. He ate their pigeon.
The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
The English learned, in my view, how to use harmony much earlier than the French or the Italians, or the Germans.
The Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ass to the seat and not leaving until after it's over.
The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.
Perhaps if England and Scotland together had one team we could at least beat the Germans.
We need a war every 10 years, so we can stay match fit in case the Germans try again.
I don't understand why Germans are openly demonstrating against Islamization and radicalization but don't help the people who flee from such horrors.
The French got enough from the Germans to save them from starvation; but many a woman sold herself for a loaf or a chunk of sausage.
It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail.
The Italians, who used to be a great motor-manufacturing power, have been absolutely destroyed by the euro - as was intended by the Germans.
Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.
When the Italians play the Germans it'll be fascinating. Mightn't be very good football but it'll be great psychology.
The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
Why can't you ask people if they want more or fewer Germans or Belgians or Moroccans?
There's a lot of egos in these countries, like the French, the Germans, et cetera, and so they keep funding and rehabilitating Yasser Arafat.
Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?
Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.
The French - cheese-eating surrender monkeys. The Germans - schnitzel snarfing stormtrooper spawn.
From '45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we're running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.
Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.
The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense.
Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared?
France is hypocritical and cowardly. I sometimes think that, having been invaded by the Germans, we'd be run better today.
Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.
One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.
That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans.
E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
The hard struggle which the Pan-Germans fought with the Catholic Church can be accounted for only by their insufficient understanding of the spiritual nature of the people.
The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their age.
Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about.
We Germans are so good at penalties because we have had to rebuild our country twice.
Our artillery... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had.
What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?
I am certain, however, that those responsible for the murder of millions of Germans will never be brought to justice.
The defeat of the Augustan policy, as the peace with Maroboduus and the sufferance of the Teutoburg disaster may well be termed, was hardly a victory of the Germans.
We are all proud that through God's powerful aid, we have become once more true Germans
The last time Boris Johnson did a deal with the Germans he came back with three nearly new water cannon.
I think it has been a tremendous feat on the part of East Germans since 1990 to adapt to everything changing.
It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines.
The Germans are very critical. They like to drag acts down. They make you feel you're not so good - not so important.
British Forces should be in a position to give back in a ten fold measure any attack that the Germans may attempt.
Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!
A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists.
Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
I am grateful to the Germans in general, particularly those who displayed unending dedication to the refugees and who continue to do so.
I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.
