Famous quotes containing the words west and/or germans:
“It is queer how it is always ones virtues and not ones vices that precipitate one into disaster.”
—Rebecca West (18921983)
“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)