German Prisoner

Famous quotes containing the words german and/or prisoner:

    I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    So doth the swan her downy cygnets save,
    Keeping them prisoner underneath her wings.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)