Defeat Germans

Famous quotes containing the words defeat and/or germans:

“Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.”
—Galeazzo Ciano (1903–1944)

“The Germans are always too late. They are late, like music, which is always the last of the arts to express a world condition,—when that world condition is already in its final stages. They are abstract and mystical.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)