Germans/language

Famous quotes containing the words germans and/or language:

    The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets. Is the charge true? I think it is.
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)

    He had not failed to observe how harmoniously gigantic language and a microscopic topic go together.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)