Germany's: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
- Language ENG
- Pages (approximate) 455
- Item Code 0546774105
- Published 2009-05-01
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Introduction
Description
Excerpt
Familiar Quotations
Germany's
In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.–John Carpenter
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.–Albert Einstein
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.–George Orwell
If Germany, thanks to and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.–Simone Weil
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.–Ludwig Wittgenstein
Use in Literature
Germany's
Germany has bitterly reproached her former ally for the ‘ingratitude’ of siding against the people who had brought her prosperity.–Robert Herrick (1868-1938) in The World Decision.
Germany is ‘organized’ both for peace and war more efficiently than any other nation in the world.–Robert Herrick (1868-1938) in The World Decision.
Germany mostly supplied her with wind and string instruments.–Francis W. Blagdon in Paris As It Was and As It Is (A Sketch Of The French Capital, Illustrative of the Effects of the Revolution), vols 1,2.
Germany has a good army of spies outside her borders.–John Buchan in Mr. Standfast.
Germany has faced a jealous world in arms and she is about to be justified of her great courage.–John Buchan in Mr. Standfast.
Germany's attitude proves that no peace for the earth can be found in the expansion of material interests which she seems to have adopted exclusively as her only aim, ideal, and watchword.–Joseph Conrad in Notes on Life and Letters.
Table of Contents
- Preface iv
- Familiar Quotations 1
- Germany's 1
- Use in Literature 2
- Germany's 2
- Nonfiction Usage 6
- Historical Usage 6
- Presidential Usage 6
- Journalism Usage 6
- Governmental Usage 49
- Bibliographic Usage 53
- Encyclopedic Usage 91
- Lexicographic Usage 332
- Index 421